Why was exim removed?
Marc Schwartz
MSchwartz at mn.rr.com
Tue Jul 5 02:21:58 UTC 2005
Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote:
> Can anyone in the know explain why Exim was removed?
>
> I work at an ISP that uses Fedora extensively, and all our servers use
> Exim, as we find it much simpler to configure and much better behaved
> than postfix/sendmail. We don't want to change just because the distro
> has dropped support for the package, and for our large email system
> that does 800,000 emails a day we *can't* change - our entire mail
> platform is built around Exim.
>
> Is there any chance Exim can be re-added to the base FC4 and future
> Fedora Core builds?
>
> I can happily go an make my own packages, but its very inconvenient,
> and I'm sure a lot of people out there are using Exim too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nathan.
It's in Extras:
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/repoview/exim-0-4.52-1.fc4.html
Installing it is as easy as:
# yum install exim
If you want to know why it was moved to Extras, you can read some
general guidelines here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CoreVsExtras
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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