> On 17 Jul 2025, at 20:09, Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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).
Aye, it’s way too big a topic for the mailing list. If you’re interested in the whole debate (as far back as 2003) you can find highlights here: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/DefaultMTA -- John Dow <[email protected]> http://www.nelefa.org PVC:APKTIDQ4881ao2SFS0DZLOe7t6V0UwcuUV4x3dnkJR0TZsYX0usQ 
