mailx on ubuntu

[Janne Jokitalo]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> · Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com>:
>> 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?

I'm not sure a bug report is needed, since:

jaska at jjod600n:~$ apt-cache show mailx
Package: mailx
<snip>
Provides: mail-reader
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0), postfix |
mail-transport-agent, base-files (>= 2.2.0)
...

so anything that provides 'mail-transport-agent' should be enough for
mailx's dependency requirement. IF I understood it correctly.


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Jaska