Re: I don't need an MTA

[pierpaolo <pierpaolo.franco@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:

The way i see it, most "regular users" either use webmail, or an MUA
to conenct to webmail accounts. Technicaly speaking, i think there
should be a way to configure mail-dependant programs to either use an
MTA or use a regular syslog or similar, and let the admin decide how
s/he wants to keep track. Granted exim isn't doing much on my system
and is small, i'm picky and i don't like having packages i don't
use/need. I'm allergic to gnome et-all for the same reasons.

I'm (surely anyone to sate anything, but a debian user who trashed windows since etch) agree with this argument: i use gmail-whit-bell-and-whistles (claendare & reader) for the mail and rsyslog for the system warnings and etcetera. I simply want to get rid of mta, because it's really not used in my system (the only root-mail i ever seen was by smartd upon my input throught a test). 
And anacron and cron simply recommend a mta! The real issue - however that seems to me - is with at... (and drupal6 for those needing it...)

pierpaolo@piccolino:~$ apt-cache showpkg at
Package: at
Versions:
3.1.10.2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 97e204a9f4ad8c681dbd54ec7c505251
 Description Language: it
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_i18n_Translation-it
                  MD5: 97e204a9f4ad8c681dbd54ec7c505251


Reverse Depends:
  mirror,at
  lsb-core,at
  libschedule-at-perl,at
  libgpeschedule0,at
  gpe-announce,at
  gnome-schedule,at
  devscripts,at
Dependencies:
3.1.10.2 - libc6 (2 2.7-1) libpam0g (2 0.99.7.1) exim4 (16 (null)) mail-transport-agent (0 (null)) lsb-base (2 3.0-10)