Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
* Colin Watson [Wed, Aug 06 2003, 08:36:25AM]:

> > Why not appease both? Let mutt depend on 
> > mail-transport-agent | no-user-mta
> > 
> > and tell such MTA hating users to create a fake "no-user-mta" package
> > with equivs.
> 
> There's no point; it's just as easy to create a fake package that
> provides mail-transport-agent with equivs. Or they could install
> something tiny like nullmailer or ssmtp and leave it at that.

This OTOH may be dangerous, another packages that really rely on a
working /usr/sbin/sendmail must be able to depend on
mail-transport-agent and get one.

MfG,
Eduard.