Why was exim removed?

[Marc Schwartz]

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