Re: Why is exim installed by default?

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Subject: Re: Why is exim installed by default?
From: Andrew Wood <a.j.w@me.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:03:05 +0100
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Because Im interested and I dont want to remove it if it does somethingimportant.



On 17/10/11 00:15, Walter Hurry 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?

Why does it matter? It is not difficult to remove the packages you don't
need and install the ones you want.

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