Re: [SLUG] Mail Transfer Agents

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Nov 20 2005 - 10:09:54 EST


On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:06:20AM -0500, Sick Twist wrote:

> I appreciate all of the replies!
>
> Paul mentioned that Exim is Debian's prefered MTA. Is that due to its
> license (Exim is under the GPL while Postfix is under the IBM Public License
> 1.0) or because of technical merit?

Postfix is included with Debian as well, so I doubt it's the license. I
suspect the Debian engineers think it's easier to configure. I happen to
disagree, but that's just me.

Paul
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