Replacing postfix with something lighter

[Stelian Iancu]

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Hi all,

I would like to use mutt as my MUA and for sending I need a smtp server.
So instead of a full featured MTA like postfix I would like to install
something much much smaller: esmtp. So far so good. However:

stelu at paradise:~$ sudo apt-get install esmtp-run
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  postfix postfix-mysql postfix-tls ubuntu-base
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  esmtp-run
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2896B of archives.
After unpacking 2417kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

And this doesn't look too good. I don't want ubuntu-base removed (I
guess that won't be such a smart move).

So is there any way I can replace postfix with esmtp while keeping
ubuntu-base installed?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
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