<mail> command missing?

[David]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 07:28:49AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> Dropping mailx was a side effect of having no MTA (/usr/sbin/sendmail) in
> the default installation, as mailx requires this in order to send mail.
> 
> It was decided not to have an MTA in the desktop install for at least the
> following reasons that I recall:
> 
> - Many systems do not require Unix-style mail
> - One fewer daemon processes in the desktop install
> - Postfix had to be crippled by default in order to meet security
>   requirements (not listen on the network), which was awkward for users who
>   actually wanted to use Postfix as a mail server
> 

God forbid that I should restart the flame war - but thanks for the 
explanation. Might I respectfully suggest that it was a well 
motivated mistake.

* There are now several packages that are broken for want of an MTA 
(debconf and cron spring to mind - others too) 
*`mail` is a decidedly useful unix command
* uncrippling Postfix was trivial, especially if you know enough to 
want to use it as a server. Non-geeks are unlikely to uncripple it 
accidentally.

I know you can't help all the people all the time, but it would be 
REALLY nice to have an MTA back for Dapper.

respectfully

David McQuire.