Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:00:03PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:There are enough SMTP/POP3 MUAs which do not need any MTA infrastructure on the local host, whatsoever.But there are some important packages which depends on MTA directly, like: at, cron, debconf, logrotate, mailx. I can imagine a workstation without those packages but it is, IMO, mutilated box.
...it's strange for MUA to require MTA, lot of them support IMAP (for viewing email) and SMTP (for sending email), both of which can be on remote servers. So why MTA on local box?
Yes, there are other reasons to have MTA on box (non related to MUA) but that's irrelevant.
erik