mailx on ubuntu

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Thu Aug 10 21:33:27 UTC 2006


· Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com>:

> 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.

Ah, thanks for the explanation! Do you think it makes sense to
file a bug, so that this gets changed to something more end
user friendly like ssmtp?

Alexander Skwar
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