Bug#4064: sendmail should recommend deliver, not depend

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:'
>
>You (Michael Shields) wrote:
>> Package: sendmail
>> Version: 8.7.5-4
>> 
>> sendmail depends on deliver.  However, in at least two common
>> configurations -- null client, and delivery by procmail -- it will run
>> perfectly without deliver.  sendmail should only recommend it.
>
>And as a result you can install sendmail without deliver and your
>mail installation won't work at all..
>
>Sendmail should come with mail.local instead of deliver IMHO.

Sendmail should be configurable, IMHO.

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