Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

I don't feel strongly enough about this topic to reply to each of your
points. I agree that some MUAs (specifically pine and netscape) are
operable without a local MTA. I do not see that this warrants any
action ie modification of packages. For most users, an MTA is required.

I would consider a UNIX system incomplete without one. At work
we have UNIX systems as embedded controllers and even those run sendmail.

I don't see how having an MTA installed unnecessarily adds an
additional point of failure; pine and netscape store their mail in
private directories, so damage to /var/spool/mail would be inconsequential.


Hamish
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