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postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]



Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:26PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org> [2009.05.05.1645 +0200]:

>> FWIW, Ubuntu did what I consider the right thing:
> 
>> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21235281/mdadm_2.6.7.1-1ubuntu4_2.6.7.1-1ubuntu5.diff.gz
> 
> Well, this is the right thing in Ubuntu because postfix is the default MTA
> for Ubuntu.  In Debian, this is not the case, so mdadm recommending postfix
> by preference causes inconsistent behavior depending on the order in which
> the user installs packages.

Maybe we should also consider changing the default MTA to postfix?

Cheers

Luk


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