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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:26:43 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>
Cc:        Cristiano Deana <cristiano.deana@gmail.com>, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help with setting up a mail server
Message-ID:  <20100722112643.GA1570@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinhQQ_Wt9yhz_I2spTbqQlkrf0g1Vp_iZe1Z86d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20100720092644.28643f19aryeh.friedman%gmail.com@flosoft.no-ip.biz> <AANLkTin-tBrCKAHqs37p3OhafNDNuiajdkTx5XcmTNZ0@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinhQQ_Wt9yhz_I2spTbqQlkrf0g1Vp_iZe1Z86d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:35:48PM +0100, krad typed:
> 
> while we are on the topic of debugging I would recomend exim as an MTA. I
> manage a few large enterprise mail systems with 10M + active accounts. A lot
> of them are legacy systems that we gained through acquisitions. I generally
> have to support them until we can get the accounts migrated onto the main
> platform. They are a mixture of exim, postfix, qmail, and sendmail, and
> quite often are in a poor state when we first get our hands on them. I have
> to say when you are getting mail routing issues exim is by the far the
> easiest to debug mainly due to the -bt option. When you combine it with the
> debug flag it produced a very detailed output on the mail routing. I have
> never found such a feature in all the other MTA's above.

Actually, the -bt option comes from sendmail originally ;)




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