Comments on: Virtual domains in exim4 http://www.thefraggle.com/2007/06/14/virtual-domains-in-exim4/ technology, photography and anything else that comes into the rambling mind of chris ganderton Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Matt http://www.thefraggle.com/2007/06/14/virtual-domains-in-exim4/#comment-5 Matt Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:49:59 +0000 http://www.thefraggle.com/2007/06/14/virtual-domains-in-exim4/#comment-5 You've just confirmed yet again the reason I don't use Exim. The configuration just looks like gibberish. It's not as bad as Sendmail but it's just not user-friendly for me. I know Exim people will say how flexible it is and how you can do tons of stuff with regexps and stuff but for the average mail server it's overkill in my opinion. For example on Postfix I have this config to do the exact same thing as you have just done: virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual virtual_alias_domains = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual And in that file I have: example.com domain matt@example.com matt@localhost root@example.com root@localhost monkey@example.com blah@another.host.com anotherdomain.com domain blah@anotherdomain.com blah@localhost Etc etc. Much more user-friendly if you ask me. You’ve just confirmed yet again the reason I don’t use Exim. The configuration just looks like gibberish. It’s not as bad as Sendmail but it’s just not user-friendly for me. I know Exim people will say how flexible it is and how you can do tons of stuff with regexps and stuff but for the average mail server it’s overkill in my opinion.

For example on Postfix I have this config to do the exact same thing as you have just done:

virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual
virtual_alias_domains = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual

And in that file I have:

example.com domain
matt@example.com matt@localhost
root@example.com root@localhost
monkey@example.com blah@another.host.com

anotherdomain.com domain
blah@anotherdomain.com blah@localhost

Etc etc.

Much more user-friendly if you ask me.

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