Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

["Ilia Lobsanov" <ilia@lobsanov.com>]

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:22:44PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > >I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want
> > >mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the
> > >mail spool through nfs.  Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim
> > >to be installed when I only need a reader?  Is this a problem about
> > >finding the smtp agent?
> >
> > What do mailx and mutt do if you try to send mail and no MTA is
installed?
> > Unless they handle this situation gracefully, which doesn't seem all
that
> > likely, this dependency is correct.
>
> My objection is simply that while there is a need for an available
> SMTP server, there is no need for it to be local.  I'm going to look
> into some alternatives and post a recommendation.
>

Perhaps creating a new package, eg. 'mutt-reader' with no MTA dependency,
could solve this problem.

ilia.