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[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:

> On Tue June 17 2008 17:39:26 Karl Larsen wrote:
> > Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > > snip
> Doesn't work in my copy of Hardy (see below).  Which
> versions
> of mailx and mailutils do you have simultaneously
> installed
> Karl?
> 
> snip
Mailutils is not installed because it is in conflict
with mailx.  The following should explain:
ackage: mailx
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 1:8.1.2-0.20070424cvs-1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers
<ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 311k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0),
exim4 | mail-transport-agent, base-files (>= 2.2.0)
Conflicts: suidmanager (< 0.52)
Provides: mail-reader
Provided by: mailutils
Description: A simple mail user agent
 mailx is the traditional command-line-mode mail user
agent. Even if you don't use it it may be required by
other programs.

E: Unable to locate package mailutuls
lchata at ubuntu64:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$ sudo
aptitude install mailutils
[sudo] password for lchata:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically
installed:
  libgsasl7 libmailutils1
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  mailx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgsasl7 libmailutils1 mailutils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mailx
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove
and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1117kB of archives. After unpacking 3039kB
will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
lchata at ubuntu64:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$ aptitude
show mailutils
Package: mailutils
State: not installed
Version: 1:1.1+dfsg1-3.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/mail
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers
<ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 831k
Depends: guile-1.6-libs, libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1),
libcomerr2 (>= 1.33-3), libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.7),
libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2),
         libgdbm3, libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0),
libgpg-error0 (>= 1.4), libgsasl7, libguile-ltdl-1,
libidn11 (>= 0.5.18),
         libkrb53 (>= 1.4.2), libltdl3 (>= 1.5.2-2),
libmailutils1 (>= 1.1), libmysqlclient15off (>=
5.0.24-2), libncurses5
         (>= 5.4-5), libpam0g (>= 0.76), libreadline5
(>= 5.2), libtasn1-3 (>= 0.3.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1),
exim4 |
         mail-transport-agent
Suggests: mailutils-mh
Conflicts: mailx, elm-me+ (< 2.4pl25ME+99c-3)
Replaces: mailutils-doc
Provides: mail-reader, mailx
Description: GNU mailutils utilities for handling mail
 This package contains the GNU mailutils versions of
dotlock, frm, from guimb, mail, messages, mimeview,
movemail, readmsg and
 sieve. They are capable of speaking POP3, IMAP, mbox,
MH and Maildir.

 dotlock -- lock mail spool files.
 frm -- display From: lines.
 from -- display from and subject.
 guimb -- process the contents of the specified
mailboxes using a Scheme
          program or expression.
 mail -- the standard /bin/mail interface, mail sender
and reader.
 messages -- count the number of messages in a
mailbox.
 mimeview -- display files, using mailcap mechanism.
 movemail -- move messages across mailboxes.
 readmsg -- extract selected messages from a mailbox.
 sieve -- a mail filtering tool.

lchata at ubuntu64:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$

Have since installed exim4 which removed postfix to
give exim4 a shot.  Don't like postfix!


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net