Why was exim removed?

[Nathan Ollerenshaw]

On Jul 5, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:

>
> 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

Aha!

Didn't know about Extras. Thanks.

> If you want to know why it was moved to Extras, you can read some
> general guidelines here:
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CoreVsExtras

Well, thanks for the help Marc.

I do wonder though; postfix is in there and so is sendmail, but not  
Exim, when it's smaller and lighter and has more features than both  
of them combined - and fully (well, 99%) compatible to sendmail's  
command line switches. One would have thought Exim would replace both  
of those.

Oh, well, I guess its better than it being dropped completely.

Thanks again for the pointer :)

Regards,

Nathan.

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