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Re: Eliminating mail-transport-agent from standard



On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 08:27:36PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> In addition to determining the MTA pulled in by default for packages
> which require mail-transport-agent in order to function (the provider of
> default-mta), I'd like to propose as a release goal that we not have any
> MTA in standard anymore.  I've actually worked towards this goal for a
> while now, and made a fair bit of progress; this mail documents the
> remaining work required, most of which is simple dependency/priority
> changes and patch application.

+1

In this age of spam, installing email server should be explicit decision
by system admin rather that something that becomes automatically when 
you install Debian.

Riku


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