MTA in ubuntu deskop

[LaMont Jones]

Given that the discussion has died down, and based on my private
discussions with with some lsb-active people, I think it is time to
proceed with the proposal.

(The relevant portion of the offline discussion is that it is perfectly
within the lsb requirements to require that the user install a specific
package in order to achieve lsb compliance - that's where we'd wind up.)

(popularity-contest is already done, the remainder are below.)

lamont

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