Exim as default mailer

["Moore, Paul" <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com>]

Hi,
There seems to be a lot of talk about moving to Exim as the default
mailer for Debian. While I feel like I should support Exim (as I used to
go to Cambridge, whwre it was developed :-) I was concerned when I
initially looked at it by the statement in the (version 2) manual
(section 39, "Intermittently connected hosts") where it says "Exim was
designed for use on permanently connected hosts, and so it is not
particularly well-suited for use in an intermittently connected
environment."

As I have a single-user home PC with dial-up access to my ISP, I fall
squarely into the category of users for whom Exim is "not particularly
well-suited". Is this a real problem, or is Exim a good mailer for
dial-up systems?

In theory, I like Exim, not least for the clear and comprehensive
manual, but I really don't want to spend a long time fighting the
system's assumptions just to get it set up...

Thanks,
Paul Moore.