Re: [exim] Do I need to compile Exim??

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:14:49PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> From: Marc Haber <mh+exim-users@???>
> To: Exim Mailing List <exim-users@???>
> Subject: Re: [exim] Do I need to compile Exim??
> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:14:49 +0100
>
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:11:52 +0000, Steven Wayne <swayne@???>
> wrote:
> >He doesn't know how to configure Debian's Exim, he may well be an ace at
> >Postfix.
>
> Nah. He would be able to read docs then.

Yeah, good point there too.

On the plus side he seems to have taken the advice. Lets hope he's
reading the docs.

>
> >Actually I've got a question for you, do you know why Debian picked on
> >Exim as the default MTA?
>
> Actually, the migration from smail to exim (1.x back then) was well
> before I joined Debian as a developer. What I have heard from the
> historians, was that exim is configured quite similiar to smail and
> was thus the logical choice.

I thought Sendmail was the default before Exim, but I could be mistaken.
Too many distros, too little time, absolutely no life.

> If Debian had to take this decision again now, I strongly suspect that
> the new default MTA would be postfix.

It is quite high on the popularity contest.

Steven.
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