On Mon 17 Oct 2011 at 13:03:05 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > Because Im interested and I dont want to remove it if it does something > important.
This is a good attitude to take. As part of a standard install we get exim4. The Mail Server task probably installs more mail related packages such as spam filtering capabilities, but I haven't looked to find out. Why give us exim4 and why is it important? Because any unix-like system is viewed as incomplete without an MTA. Let's guess at your situation. You run GNOME/KDE with a Desktop Manager. You never use a virtual terminal and you have a mailer which deals with sending mail. In this case you will never see any benefit from exim4. But it is still there, running all the time. You derive no advantage from it so it could be removed. On the other hand, you are not very bothered so you leave it on the system. No problem: it will take a little bit of memory but otherwise it is benign. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111017180543.GC2913@desktop
