4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Exim first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I had to spend a lot of time configuring exim4 (and spamassassin and clam-av), figuring out which email indexer to use... I didn't enjoy it all.”
regret · personal · jrockway · 2012-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, and qmail at various times.”
neutral · production · randallsquared · 2025-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I run a separate Exim n Dovecot with rspamd setup for a few vanity domains.”
neutral · production · gerdesj · 2025-02-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use linux for: redis, elasticsearch, HAProxy, DNS (bind), nginx, mail (exim) apache, wordpress, mysql, nexpose, backups, puppet, asterix, android builds and our internal mercurial.”
neutral · production · Nick-Craver · 2013-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?