On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:22:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, May 09 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 May 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> My point is precisely that I don't think there are any salient > >> technical advantages of one over the other. > > Just going by what MTAs -ctte members are running, it'd be 3, 2, 2 > > (postfix, exim, and sendmail.) [Though I honestly wouldn't suggest > > sendmail as the default, Manoj probably would. ;-)] > While I do prefer sendmail, I think there is one technical issue > you guys are glossing over: The fact that we have an installed base of > Exim, and documentation all over the place that assumes the Debian > default is Exim, Such as? I haven't seen any documentation that makes this assumption. > and given that other things appear equal (Exim, postfix, and sendmail all > meet technical requirements, all are supported by strong communities, > etc), the minimal disruption to a tested setup rule applies -- and Exim > has a strong lead over theothers, my personal preference notwithstanding. According to popcon, only about 68% of Debian users have exim4 installed, and 18% have postfix installed. I don't think that's much of a lead for exim4, considering most of the exim4 installs are probably due solely to its status as a default. So I don't find this persuasive. Which is largely beside the point; this is not debian-ctte.... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
