Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Oct 10, 2004: > Deep difference. Our mail-transport-agents are able to behave as daemon, > listening on 25 port. msmtp doesn't, and it's the same for nail. Do you > think that nail could be an MTA? Do you think that any evolution of > mail(1) could be seen as an MTA, only because is able to "speak" smtp? > :o
I think -- but I may be wrong -- that the mail-transport-agent virtual package was created to help programs using /usr/sbin/sendmail to have a depends, and programs providing /usr/sbin/sendmail to have a conflicts/replaces. If msmtp provides a compatible /usr/sbin/sendmail, it would be nice that it would also provide mail-transport-agent. What I don't think is that programs are relying on something listening on :25 when they depend on mail-transport-agent. I don't think this is the case because exim and postfix both offer a configuration where nothing listens on :25. Is there a text describing the contract of packages providing mail-transport-agent? Regards, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
