On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Steve Sobol wrote:

In light of the recent thread about a carrier-class mail server, and since I don't have the address of the mailing list mentioned there, I was wondering how people felt about Exim.

I apologize in advance to those NANOG readers who are going to yell at me about operational content, but I couldn't come up with a better mailing list to send this to.

I've installed Exim. I like what I've seen so far. Robust, lots of features... and I was mightily impressed when my out-of-the-box RPM installation passed all of abuse.net's spam relay tests.

So... Can Exim handle large queues, and delivery to tens of thousands of mailboxes? (I'm not at the point where I'd need that kind of scalability yet, but I don't want to have to switch mail servers any time soon.)

I think exim is great - logical design, really full-featured, and very very fast. I've used it at a number of my jobs, and never had any significant problems with it. I'm actually very disappointed that more people aren't familiar with it. I've used it in multi-thousand message queues, receiving hundreds of thousands of messages a day. Plus, it's real easy to set up a clustered configuration using maildir, etc. With a good config, a load balancer, and nas storage, you could run a pile of smtp servers off of one centralized config. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew J. Zito Systems Engineer Register.com, Inc., 11th Floor, 575 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 Ph: 212-798-9205 PGP Key Fingerprint: 4E AC E1 0B BE DD 7D BC D2 06 B2 B0 BF 55 68 99