On 12/03/2022 16:14, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
Hi,Can someone explain why MySQL/MariaDB detritus gets pulled in when you install exim4?Does exim4 use a database now?I thought all the queues and such were just text files.
If by 'detritus' you mean libmariadb3, a client library for MariaDB, then exim4-daemon-heavy does indeed have that as a dependency.
Exim can (but does not have too) connect to databases, so it needs to have the client library. It won't use a database in the standard Debian setup, though.
Note that there's exim4-daemon-light, which does not have support for databases, embedded perl, and other less frequently used features. But it should be enough for most simple use cases.
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