UUCP uses rmail to inject mail coming in via uucp into the local mail system. Not so long ago all MTAs provided rmail[1], so (indirectly) depending on mail-transfer-agent gave uucp the interface it needed. Now sendmail decided to split off rmail, which of course breaks sendmail+uucp installations unless the rmail package is installed. There are two options as I see it right now: - Require that the MTA provides rmail (either by having their own, or by depending on rmail). - Introduce a new virtual package 'rmail' and all packages having an rmail could declare "Provides: rmail". UUCP could then depend on rmail rather than a mailer. Both ways would work for me. There is a 3rd option, but which I really hate: - uucp depending on "postfix | exim | exim4-daemon-light | ..... | rmail" My favorite short term solution is to get sendmail fixed, option 2 requires all MTA packages but sendmail/rmail be changed. What's your opinion on that. Peter 1. With the only exception being ssmtp and nullmailer but nobody in their right mind would install them on a uucp system. 2. #232664 -- PGP signed and encrypted | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** messages preferred. | : :' : The universal | `. `' Operating System http://www.palfrader.org/ | `- http://www.debian.org/
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