On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:19:39 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Which might be caused by the fact that Debian has been using exim as
>> its default MTA for years, probably accounting for more than half of
>> exim installations out there.
>>
>> Does the exim community consider this a Bad Thing?
>
>For myself, I consider the fact that Debian is still introducing new
>users to Exim 3, three years after it was superseded, a Bad Thing for
>those users, because there is nowhere that they can get good support any
>more.
I agree to this. However, _this_ is part of our release policy, and I
am not in a position to change that. Our release cycles are _way_ too
long.
>> If so, I'll happily report this to the Debian people responsible,
>> suggesting that we choose a different MTA as default for the release
>> after sarge, expected in late 2006 earliest.
>
>You are, of course, entirely free to do that, and Debian is entirely
>free to choose whichever MTA it wants to.
What I am asking is whether the exim community wants Debian to change
default MTAs. I think we are pretty happy with exim.
Greetings
Marc
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