Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent

by Philip Hazel

Exim delivers electronic mail, both local and remote. It has all the virtues of a good postman: it's easy to talk to, reliable, efficient, and eager to accommodate even the most complex special... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596000987
• ISBN13: 9780596000981
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good book on a great program...

If you can't (or won't) run sendmail, then IMO your only two real alternatives are postfix and Exim. I still believe that sendmail is a better choice, but both postfix and Exim are still quite good.If you decide to run Exim, there are few people who could give you a better insight into how the program is configured and how it works internally, than the author of the program -- Phil Hazel.However, keep in mind that the book is primarily oriented around version 3 of this program, and version 4 (with some significant changes) has already been produced. More information is available at [URL].

The only MTA book you'll ever need

_Exim, the MTA_ would be an appropriate book for someone who does not know anything about e-mail and suddenly needs to manage a server, and EXIM would be a good e-mail server for this person to use. EXIM is the default MTA in Debian and other Unix distributions too.Exim, the MTA, has been written entirely, except for contributed patches, by Philip Hazel, who continues to maintain it. [...]In conclusion, if I wasn't already in the habit of setting up qmail on new machines that appear within my aegis, a habit that, once I got the hang of it, has reduced the care and feeding of my e-mail servers to an absolute minimum, I might select exim as an MTA to specialize in. To restate, it's too late for me, but save yourself!