On 17.07.2025 19:00 Uhr Stefan Monnier wrote: > I don't have anything against Exim4 (I just happened to choose Postfix > many years ago and never had a reason to reconsider that choice). > I know basically nothing about Exim4 other than the fact that > installing Postfix instead saved a few kB (nothing very significant > in the grand scheme of things). > > So here I am, wondering why Exim4 is favored this way.
It is simply a default for a metapackage, maybe you can find old discussions about that in mailing list archives. All people who want to install an MTA will choose one and install and configure it, regardless of the default in the case of the metapackage. An unconfigured MTA is useless in almost all use cases anyway and the nasty Postfix ncurses setup during the install process is annoying, especially if installed as a recommended packet (this existed in the past for smartd stuff). -- kind regards Marco Send spam to [email protected]
