MTA in ubuntu deskop

[Thom May]

* Thibaut Varene (faucon.millenium at gmail.com) wrote :
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:04:41 -0700, LaMont Jones <lamont.jones at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> >   lsb           Move to ship seed, document that one needs to install
> >                 lsb to have an LSB compliant system.
> 
> I'll just comment on that issue: is breaking LSB compliance for
> default install a Good Thing (tm)?
> 
> > Lastly, the following package Depends: mail-transport-agent in error (it
> > doesn't actually use it anymore):
> >   popularity-contest    fix dependency
> 
> Actually, a nice thing to do would be to implement some other method
> to send reports into popcon (builtin SMTP, HTTP POST...), so that it
> wouldn't require a properly configured MTA to send its reports, see
> #239099, a patch seems available...
> 
That happened in warty already, which is why it doesn't use the MTA already
:-)
-Thom
 

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That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
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