MTA in ubuntu deskop

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 8 19:30:23 CST 2005


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:04:41PM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote:

> At a lower level, here are the packages, and what changes in them:
> 
> The following packages Provide: mail-transport-agent:
>   postfix	Move to ship seed, restore the questions needed for full
>   		configuration at install time.  Change all of the other
> 		packages to
> 		  Depend/Recommend: postfix | mail-transport-agent
> 		rather than exim4 | mail-transport-agent
> 
> The following packages Recommend: mail-transport-agent:
>   cron		If /usr/sbin/sendmail isn't there, then cron generates an
> 		error and exits, discarding the job output.
>     		Crontab should issue a warning when installing a crontab
> 		(either new or editing) if /usr/sbin/sendmail is not
> 		present.
>   procmail 	Move to ship seed.
> 
> The following packages Depend: mail-transport-agent:
> 
>   anacron	Behavior is the same as cron, same changes
>   at		Behavior is the same as cron, same changes
>   lsb		Move to ship seed, document that one needs to install
> 		lsb to have an LSB compliant system.
>   mailx		Move to ship seed
>   mutt		Move to ship seed
> 
> Lastly, the following package Depends: mail-transport-agent in error (it
> doesn't actually use it anymore):
>   popularity-contest	fix dependency

Looks good to me.

-- 
 - mdz



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