On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:00:03PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > There are enough SMTP/POP3 MUAs which do not need any MTA infrastructure on > the local host, whatsoever. But there are some important packages which depends on MTA directly, like: at, cron, debconf, logrotate, mailx.
I can imagine a workstation without those packages but it is, IMO,
mutilated box.
> Mutt can fetch by pop-3, but I think it has no
> smtp support build in, or?
Mutt has no support for SMTP.
BTW, there is no need for exim4-daemon-heavy. There are other lightweight
MTA's.
Another solution is to prepare a dummy-mta package, which only
provides mail-transfer-agent and required by policy /usr/sbin/sendmail
and /usr/bin/newaliases binaries to do nothing[1].
Advanced Debian users has another opportunity to solve this problem: equivs.
I would like to know Md's opinion, but for me there are no reasons to relax
dependencies for mutt (and other MUA). I would not like to do it without
policy requirements because it concerns also other MUA's.
I, personally, like the dummy-mta solution, however nullmailer also looks
good.
Cheers
Artur
[1] maybe logging to syslog will be good.
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