mailx on ubuntu

[Alexander Skwar]

· Janne Jokitalo <janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net>:

> 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.

I meant a bug report, which makes ssmtp the preferred mail-transport-agent
provider and also a bug, which removes the "postfix |" from the depends
line. Why mention postfix explicitly there?

Alexander Skwar
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