Rich Kulawiec via plug on 6 Sep 2019 13:38:44 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Exim oops (vs Postfix?)


On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 04:09:25PM -0400, Alan McConnell via plug wrote:
> 	Aren't both infinitely preferable to sendmail(ugh!!) or smail?

No, they are not.  Sendmail is a perfectly reasonable choice as an MTA,
despite a persistent and erroneous mythos that it's not.

Smail is obsolete and hasn't been updated for 10+ years, but it
is a substantial part of the foundation of Exim so arguably it
lives on under another name.

---rsk

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