Talk:Exim

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[edit] "poorer basic design model"

hmm a statement like "even with a poorer basic design model than" needs some qualification. Is this widely accepted or is this parroting djb's rhetoric?

It doesn't exactly take a wizard to figure out that separating different functionality into different small programs with carefully separated privileges is a design inherently superior in security and speed to the model where everything is lumped into a single binary. Dunno, maybe I take too many things as common sense... --Shallot 17:13, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Im not saying its not less secure but that statements like that need to be qualified, ie why is it less secure?

Well, we probably need a generic page on MTAs to provide such generic explanations. --Shallot 15:11, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

I'm having trouble providing publically available documentation for the usage pattern stuff. The general distribution is based on the mailing list patterns (which I manage). The other factor feeding into this is that both Suse and RHEL added Exim into their distributions as a stated requirement from EU based customers, however I hold that info as private mail. I'll see if I can dump general stats from the ML, otherwise I guess on that unless other people have public backup that section can be dropped. --Nigelm

• Thank you for trying to find sources. Uncle G 17:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Most of the feature oriented requested citations would be best covered by the Exim documentation itself. Do those really need citations? Would the chapter number / heading from the Exim manual be enough, or is even that necessary? --ssd 02:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

I added the software infobox to this article, however I cannot find a couple pieces of information: the developer (Philip Hazel, or a team?) and whether the logo on exim.org is free to copy. I would assume there would be no problems in uploading the logo of a GPL project, but such things should have confirmation first... --Ec- 16:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)