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qmail vs. exim



There was some discussion here about mail software. Perhaps you will find the 
following a bit interesting.

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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote:

> I have been using qmail for quite some time now and have been very pleased
> with it.  Haven't had any problems.  I noticed that the debian site plans on
> moving to exim.  Why?  Are there some significant features that exim has?

Primarily because qmail is not free software. But in the longer term Exim
is more appealing because it has integreated LDAP support, I'd rather not
graft that onto qmail myself :>

When comparing the two there isn't really much difference until you get
into really high mail volumes.

Jason


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