Re: MTA and debian default mta

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Subject: Re: MTA and debian default mta
From: Matt Garman <garman@netins.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 23:25:09 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 19991224232509.B12933@uiuc.edu>
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19991224151501.A641@darkstar>; from jpb@cybertours.com on Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 03:15:02PM -0500
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Just out of curiosity, why did Debian choose exim as its default MTA?

I remember Debian's default MTA used to be smail.  Why did they move
away from smail?

And why did they choose exim over others (such as postfix)?

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Garman, garman@ews.uiuc.edu
"And through the window in the wall
 Come streaming in on sunlight wings
 A million bright ambassadors of morning." 
	--Pink Floyd, "Echoes"

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