On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:14:49PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > From: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Exim Mailing List <[email protected]> > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. -- When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
