Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi> writes: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 07:12:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm not sure that I see the point, and I say that as someone who >> replaces Exim with Postfix on all of my boxes. > Nobody's suggesting you need to change to anything. The worst you have > to do if debian changed default MTA, would be to "apt-get install exim4" > (gasp, what horrible pain) when doing new installations. Did you miss the bit where I said that I replace Exim with Postfix on all of my boxes, despite quoting it? Logically, you can draw the inference that I know exactly how hard it is to replace the default MTA with a different one. >> There's nothing particularly wrong with Exim; it works just fine. > Exim in 2012 not supporting 8BITMIME and thus being the last Major MTA > forcing quoted-printable conversions to make emails "7bit clean" is > quite horribly wrong. I didn't realize that. I agree, that's an annoying missing feature. Has someone talked with upstream about whether they have plans to implement it? > Yes that was a bit of a hyperbole, but this is my pet issue. I > complained last about it in 2009 [2] with no change from upstream > since... > [2] http://suihkulokki.blogspot.com/2009/07/cult-of-workarounds.html Okay, let me rephrase that: has anyone talked with upstream about this without making sweeping, confrontational statements about a "cult of workarounds" and otherwise insulting them? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87397lcl42....@windlord.stanford.edu
