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
