FW: Starting MTA:

["Chris Harries" <chris@sharescope.co.uk>]

I was pointing in the right direction, rather then holding a hand

-----Original Message-----
From: Jochen Schulz [mailto:ml@well-adjusted.de] 
Sent: 17 September 2009 12:30
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Starting MTA:

Michal:
> 
> MTA is mail transfer agent, exim is one of those, like sendmail,
> postfix et al, and you can remove this. Check the guide under
> install/remove some software
> 
> update-rc.d -f exim remove

This is bad advice for various reasons.

- It doesn't solve the problem, it's just a workaround.
- It doesn't "remove software", it just prevents Exim's init script to
  be executed during boot.
- It only works until Exim gets upgraded for some reason.

J.
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