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.
