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.fc...
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