Bug#930476: exim4 is no longer installed by default
Control: tags -1 + pending
Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Package: installation-guide
> > Version: 20170614
> >
> > > 8.5.1. Default E-Mail Configuration
> > >
> > > [...] For this reason the packages exim4 and mutt will be installed
> > by default (provided you did not unselect the “standard” task during the
> > installation).
> >
> > I have been told by several people, exim4 is no longer installed by
> > default :-).
> >
> > In Debian 9 and above, exim4-daemon-light has been downgraded from
> > "Priority: standard" to "optional".
>
> This is indeed correct!
>
> So as a consequence, we need to drop the whole "8.5.1. Default E-Mail
> Configuration" chapter in the manual.
>
> Any objections?
I re-thought again about this, and applied a less invasive approach via
rephrasing
"the packages exim4 and mutt will be installed by default"
into
"You can install exim4 and mutt with <command>apt install exim4 mutt</command>."
Thus tagging this bug as pending
Holger
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