Hi, On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 12:54:58PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Why does Debian default to installing Exim4?
Just historical reasons I think: No great mystery, just that a choice had to be made and that was the choice that was made. Personally I haven't been too thrilled with Exim's security track record of late and do kind of wish that the default had been Postfix, which would serve my needs in 99% of cases, and be simpler. But there's nothing except my own laziness stopping me from just switching to Postfix so these are very minor whinges from me really and I do still use Exim almost everywhere. Anyway as far as I am aware more effort is being made to remove the need for any MTA whatsoever (by removing dependencies on "an MTA") than to seriously consider switching defaults from Exim to Postfix. I think it's assumed that anyone who knows enough to know what an MTA is and have an opinion about which one they want, can make that choice themselves. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
