On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:46:37 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>>   Some other mousing around showed that Buster, unlike Stretch and
>>   prececessors, now runs an MTA by default. It uses Exim 4.
>
> I'm thinking this must be a dependency of something you installed
> manually.
> I'd have to check my install but for now I think it's not likely that
> they include an (enabled) MTA by default.

It may have just crept silently in without you noticing - thats what
happened here. I had no MTAs installed under Stretch and prior versions,
so was somewhat surprised to see exim sitting there, quietly running.

When I found it I assumed it was there to keep RPi4 folks happy if they
were expecting to use one as a cheap desktop Linux box. If I'd not wanted
an MTA I'd have simply removed it, but it may have its uses in future so
I swapped it for Postfix since thats what I already use everywhere else.


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