I would like to know the footprint size of exim and sendmail . I am working on for relay server in embedded paltform . I need the thinner of these two .

Can you tell me which is having lesser size ?

Is there any option in EXIM to choose only relay server ?

I would imagine that either can be minimalized to do what you want but both are going to require the whole package installed. You might want to consider postfix as well.

I want to use Exim as a relay server . Can you please tell me --what things i can omit from configaration file .in router ,transport -which router and transport are really needed ?


Can you guide me a little ?

Why didn't you continue this in the existing thread you already started? If you decided to just go with exim, you should have continued here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...r-size-661061/

i thought it is unfair to ask two different questions on same thread ..so i asked different thread ..i can continue in the same thread ...

k...what about implementing exim as a relay server/

If you look around, depending on your requirements there are several options that might be better suited..

Package: ssmtp
Priority: extra
Section: mail
Uncompressed Size: 8k
Provides: mail-transport-agent
Description: extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail hub
A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration.

WARNING: the above is all it does; it does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mail hub with a system administrator.



Package: esmtp
Section: mail
Uncompressed Size: 102k
Recommends: esmtp-run
Suggests: procmail | maildrop | deliver
Description: User configurable relay-only MTA
ESMTP is a user configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with a sendmail-compatible syntax. It's based on libESMTP supporting the AUTH (including the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms) and the StartTLS SMTP extensions.

ESMTP does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue but can deliver mail locally via an MDA.




Package: exim4-daemon-light
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 4.63-17
Priority: standard
Section: mail
Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <pkg-exim4-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 893k



Package: postfix
State: not installed
Version: 2.3.8-2+b1
Priority: extra
Section: mail
Maintainer: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 2523k


Package: sendmail
State: not installed
Version: 8.13.8-3
Priority: extra
Section: mail
Maintainer: Richard A Nelson (Rick) <cowboy@debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 254k
Depends: sendmail-base (= 8.13.8-3) 1241k , sendmail-bin (= 8.13.8-3) 1745k, sendmail-cf (= 8.13.8-3) 1241k, sensible-mda (= 8.13.8-3), rmail (= 8.13.8-3)

Not really all the different. Keep discussions in the same existing thread.

Posts merged.