MTA in ubuntu deskop

[Tres Seaver]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="LaMont Jones">
> 
>>  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
> 
> 
> These are the only changes that make me slightly uncomfortable. mutt is
> still useful without an MTA, and it would suck a bit to not have an LSB
> compliant system by default. Perhaps these could be resolved by using
> Scott's dummy sendmail? I would feel more comfortable with clear failure
> accompanied by a "you really need to install a real MTA" message than to
> make all of this Not Work (tm) by default [1]. :-)

-1 to installing a "dummy" package in order to "fake out" LSB 
compliance.  If LSB compliance "out-of-the-box" is a real goal, removing 
the local-delivery MTA should be ruled out.  If not, then requiring the 
explicit "install an MTA" step is the Right Thing (tm).

Tres.