Re: [Hampshire] A small request for help

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:04:01 +0000 (+0000), john lewis wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:53:08 +0000
> Adrian Bridgett <adrian@???> wrote:
>
> > A second vote here for postfix followed by exim. I find postfix's
> > configuration easier and I prefer it's modular approach rather than
> > exim's monolithic structure. It also gives it better security
> > (although to be fair exim's record is pretty good).
>
> Exim4 is also modular but I found that confusing as I didn't know
> which of the dozens of conf files I was supposed to modify, hence I
> gave up.

I was referring to the program, not the number of config files :-)
Postfix is made up of several programs, all of which only have the
privilege which they require - beter security.

Exim's config (at least in Debian), can either be all in one file, or
made up of dozens of config files.

Adrian
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