Jerry A! <jerry@???> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:58:07AM +0100, Jeff AA wrote:
>:
>: When we switched to Debian two years ago, from a mixture of RH / SuSE,
>: we had to decide whether to use Exim or continue to use Postfix and
>: Sendmail MTAs. We decided that in light of the other quality Debian
>: decisions, that we would go with the flow.
>
>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.
The reason Debian currently uses Exim is because it used to use smail.
They wanted to switch because development on smail was slow and Exim
was very similar but much more functional. They originally chose smail
because it was much easier to configure than Sendmail, and at that
time there weren't many other options -- MMDF is closed-source, Zmailer
is too heavyweight, and there was no qmail or postfix.
Tony.
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