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Author: Joel Roth
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Why use Exim?
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 10:12:00AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Several disadvantages of Exim were discussed in a different thread. So
> my question: Why use Exim instead of Postfix or Qmail?


tldr: inertia

Exim became popular many when it was common administer your
own mail host. It was a great improvement over sendmail.
Debian made it easy to configure the common case of mail
through a smarthost. Thus we arrive at the present. I would
choose something lighter next time, but exim does serves my
simple purposes just fine.

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Joel Roth