On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Jerry A! wrote:
> Just to be fair, I wouldn't consider this a decision an endorsement of
> quality. The reason Exim is the default MTA in Debian is b/c it's the
> *only* GPL'd MTA.
Is this documented somewhere?
Because standard Debian includes a lot of non-GPL'd software.
sendmail's and postfix's licensing fit the Debian "Free Software
Guidelines" -- and they are available as official Debian packages.
> Regardless, Exim is a fantastic MTA (and that's 5+ years of usage
> speaking).
I agree. My professional use is almost 5 years Exim, 4 years sendmail, 2
years postfix, and less than one year with qmail -- all on a variety of
different operating systems at a variety of different ISPs.
Jeremy C. Reed
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