> 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.
