On 2005 May 11, at 9:32 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:13 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: >> exim: dunno license currently, > > Debian uses exim as the MTA by default, so it's almost certainly free > enough to stick in gnu/.
Things are being removed from there. Nothing new will ever be added. >> but awkward 80s design, poor implementation, just plain sucks > > At the risk of starting a flamewar, people say things equally as bad > about sendmail. So? Sendmail also has the benefit of being thoroughly audited by the OpenBSD team. Besides, swapping MTAs would be almost as much work as writing a new one. Why go to all that trouble for bad code with a bad license? In short: no way in hell; not in a million years; dream on. Cheers, b& [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of PGP.sig]