Exim as default MTA?

[Sheldon Hearn]

On (2003/06/02 10:07), Avleen Vig wrote:

> Yes, I've been reading /. :)
> But this isn't the first time this has occured to me.
> 
> With all the security vulnerbilties, would it be unreasonable to either
> change the default MTA from sendmail to Exim/Qmail/Postfix, or give
> people the option of installing something instead of Sendmail at install
> time?

Please check this subject out in the mailing list archives before
dredging it up again.

The short answer is no.  The long answer is that the project would be
willing to accept a change sysinstall so that it allowed a choice of MTA
at install time, with sendmail being the default.

This requires work which nobody has stepped up to perform. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.