Default MTA for Fedora 7

Joachim Frieben jfrieben at gmx.de
Sat Feb 3 20:12:20 UTC 2007


> I noticed that Exim is being installed as the default MTA, at least on 
> the Desktop installation of Fedora 7 test1. Is this change intentional? 
> I can't seem to find it mentioned anywhere?!?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> /Thomas

I had posted a related bug report back in December 2006 because of "yum" pulling in "exim" from "FE" in order to resolve a dependency on "/usr/sbin/sendmail" when installing "mutt" at:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219920 .

The bug got closed by J. Katz after classification as "NOTABUG". The argument was that the "sendmail" command is provided by several packages in "FC/FE" without particular ranking and "exim" simply seems to win by alphabetical order compared to "postfix" or "sendmail" .. :-/
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