On 2021-02-21, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: >> >> The Mail Transport Agent Switcher. Almost sounds like a name invented by >> the marketing department. Anyway, I guess the MTAS is irrelevant because >> we're not concerned with Fedora here. But I suppose its existence proves >> its usefulness---or maybe the word is practicality---at least for >> Fedora users. > > I think Andrei answered it in the third post of the thread: > > "Installing and removing/purging packages has traditionally been very > easy in Debian, such a mechanism would have limited benefits for > significant added complexity."
For some reason his posts never seem to make it through to my news server. Maybe there exists a special switch he toggles on or something. > I have no experience of Fedora installations myself. > > Then, as frequently happens, the thread expanded into such options as > distributing different tasks, that one MTA normally does, amongst > several different MTAs. Even more complexity. No thanks. Configuring > just one is enough for me. > > Cheers, > David. --
