Re: Sendmail configuration question

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

Installed  and just ran a few tests with Exim. Was much faster than sendmail and
nothing crashed. The bottleneck was the bandwidth and sendmail on the other mail
server.

Looks great. And thats without changing any default options. I still need to do
more testing, but it looks almost ready.

Thanks.


Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:50:05AM +0900, A.Sajjad Zaidi wrote:
> > > > And its very inconvenient to switch to another mailer at this point, so
> > > > no use recommending qmail, exim etc.
> > >
> > > Yes and no.  If you have a problem that makes it sufficiently inconvenient
> > > to get sendmail running, then the inconvenience of switching to a better
> > > mailer might be more useful.
>
> Also note that if you are using it just to send mail, it could
> coexist with your existing MTA.  (Although I would argue that
> replacing Sendmail with something like Exim or Postfix is a
> good thing to be doing anyway.)
>
> > Youre right about that. I did get exim working once, so how is that for this
> > kind of problem?
>
> As one of the local Exim evangelists, I'd have to say "great." :-)
>
> The configuration file is in readable form and the
> documentation is quite good.  There are a number of
> configuration file and command line options that will allow you
> to control the timing of the queuing, routing, and delivery of
> mail. (In particular, see the sections of Exim's spec.txt
> describing -odq* options for a synopsis.  And then ask Darren
> and me for varying viewpoints about which is best. :-)  Also
> don't miss the split_spool_directory option for keeping the
> size of any one directory within reason.
>
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