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Re: default MTA for sarge



On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:01:30AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:

> > Why? Do you have any compelling reasons against exim?
> 
> it's more that postfix has numerous compelling advantages.  it's small, it's
> fast, it's very flexible, it's very easy to configure, it's secure, it scales
> beautifully from the very smallest mail systems to the very largest, and more.

Hmmm. None of which are compelling advantages of postfix over exim; all of
those also apply to exim.

> postfix.  the proposal is that the default MTA on new debian installations is
> postfix rather than exim.

Changing from exim to postfix would be a gratuitous major change. Changing
from exim3 to exim4 would be a sensible minor change.


Cheers,


Nick

P.S. Does anyone disagree that this is, essentially, a religious issue?
-- 
Nick Phillips -- nwp@lemon-computing.com
You have many friends and very few living enemies.



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