Why was exim removed?

[Kam Leo]

On 7/4/05, Nathan Ollerenshaw <nathan at valuecommerce.co.jp> 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.
> 
> --
> Nathan Ollerenshaw / Systems Engineer
> Systems Engineering
> ValueCommerce Co., Ltd.
> 

The exim was not removed. It was moved from Core to Extras,
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/