Re: Why does sendmail depend on procmail?

[Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>]

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On 6 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> 	We should have both, and let sendmail depend on a virtual
>  package, and people may make their own choices.

This would be the best solution, but deliver and procmail have different
command-line options. sendmail.cf reads:

                A=deliver -r $g $u

for deliver, and

                A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u

for procmail.

Should deliver/procmail postinst change sendmail configuration
automatically? Should deliver/procmail postinst force a sendmail
reconfigure? If we do this, why not for the other MTAs?

Maybe we need a new (real, not virtual) package "mda-base" to manage
all this? [ I had some ideas about this, see bug #11655 ].

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