On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > >> Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail >> Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually >> serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? >
The primary reason for Exim-4 is that most implementations of cron require a MTA, and Exim-4 is Debian's default choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+cmqzrvgdcjwzwprs5xxubz7jei1mbrho3arfyzorsidj2...@mail.gmail.com
