Re: Why is exim installed by default?
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote:
>
>> Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail
>> Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually
>> serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation?
>
The primary reason for Exim-4 is that most implementations of cron
require a MTA, and Exim-4 is Debian's default choice.
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