Re: I don't need an MTA

[Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> For now i'll try restraining DNS. Whenever the loss of mouse pointer
> "forces" me to reboot again i'll see it it works :) If not, either
> getting it out of the init scripts o switching to another MTA.
>
> I like the client/server approach but this MTA stuff is kind of
> annoying for regular desktop use. Is there a bogus MTA? One that'll
> pretend to be one and accept stuff from its clients but basically
> /dev/null everything?
>

I've not found one in a quick look (you'd think 'nullmailer' might fit the bill,
with a name like that, but you'd be wrong).

I'm curious however what it is you have installed that depends on exim, or the
mail-transport-agent virtual package. I have no MTA installed on my machine, and
no breakages.

Would you mind posting the output of 'aptitude why mail-transfer-agent' or
'aptitude why exim', whichever is more enlightening?

Nye