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RE: Why does sendmail depend on procmail?



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On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:

> Maybe, but shouldn't we add a virtual package for this?

This is difficult to implement. You would have to rebuild a sendmail.cf
file each time you install/uninstall deliver/procmail. Very tricky.

> I don't like the idea of installing procmail just to be able to use
> sendmail even if procmail is never used.

procmail will be used every time a message is received via port 25.
You would have to dislike also the idea of installing sendmail
just to *send* messages.

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