mailx on ubuntu

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 8/10/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>
> > I think I am missing the SASL installation part mentioned at
> > http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
>
> Postfix? Why that? Do you need to accept incoming mail from the
> LAN or Internet?

When you install mailx or other MUA  in Ubuntu, they will depend on
mail-transport-agent.  The default package providing
mail-transport-agent is postfix (in Ubuntu).  Due to this dependancy,
postfix is also installed when you install mailx.

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Chris

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