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| From | Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: mailutils in stretch |
| Date | 2017-07-07 18:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <u0DPJ-63n-27@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 2017-07-07 16:52 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 07/07/17 à 16:39, Sven Joachim a écrit :
>> In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority
>> standard or important to optional in recent years. This includes the
>> venerable "ed" text editor for instance, and also any package providing
>> /usr/bin/mail. Apparently the reason is that they pull in an MTA which
>> is also no longer included by default. Which seems sensible to me BTW.
>
> A small relaying only MTA could be installed by default, eg ssmtp.
Good luck changing the default MTA in Debian, that has been under
discussion on debian-devel for at least 18 years[1]. Besides,
maintainers cannot even agree which MTA they prefer to pull in if one is
needed by their packages:
,----
| $ grep-dctrl -FDepends mail-transport-agent -n -sDepends /var/lib/apt/lists/*unstable*Packages | sed -e 's/, /\n/g' | grep mail-transport-agent | sort -u
| default-mta | exim4 | mail-transport-agent
| default-mta | mail-transport-agent
| exim | mail-transport-agent
| exim4 | mail-transport-agent
| exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent
| exim4 | postfix | sendmail | mail-transport-agent
| exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent
| mutt | mailx | mail-transport-agent
| postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent
| postfix | mail-transport-agent
| sendmail | mail-transport-agent
| sendmail-bin | mail-transport-agent
`----
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/06/thrd5.html#01981
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mailutils in stretch Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2017-07-07 09:10 +0200
Re: mailutils in stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-07-07 09:50 +0200
Re: mailutils in stretch Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2017-07-07 12:30 +0200
Re: mailutils in stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-07 14:50 +0200
Re: mailutils in stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-07-07 16:50 +0200
Re: mailutils in stretch Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2017-07-07 17:00 +0200
Re: mailutils in stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-07-07 18:00 +0200
Re: mailutils in stretch Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2017-07-08 10:30 +0200
Re: mailutils in stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-07-08 12:50 +0200
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