Re: [Exim] Exim on Red Hat Linux?

Aviram Carmi [9/1/2003 4:00 AM] :

> Any ideas why, for example, Red Hat provides postfix with their
> distribution, and even provide a mechanism (a little utility program)
> to switch between sendmail and postfix, but completely ignores exim?
>
> Mandrake, on the other hand, uses postfix as their default MTA.
>
> Is there anything "wrong" with exim?
>
> Am I missing something here?

A matter of personal choice for whoever builds the distribution - Redhat
and Mandrake come with Postfix. Debian Linux comes with Exim.

The "switching" is basically done by the alternatives package in redhat
/ mandrake. There are plenty of exim rpms (such as the ones at
xtronics.com and timj.co.uk) that you can use, that support alternatives
so that you can switch between sendmail / postfix / exim as you please.

Or go to freebsd, which uses its /etc/mail/mailer.conf file to similar
effect.