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Re: mailutils in stretch

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Le 07/07/17 à 16:39, Sven Joachim a écrit :
> On 2017-07-07 05:19 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:41:33AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> On 2017-07-07 02:06 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>>>> What was the reason for omitting mailutils (and, specifically, a
>>>> functional /usr/bin/mail binary) from the default strech install?
>>>
>>> For the record, mailutils have never been part of a default install, but
>>> bsd-mailx (which also provides /usr/bin/mail) was until Jessie.
>>
>> I stand corrected.  bsd-mailx does sound more familiar, now that you
>> mention it, but mailutils was the (first) `mail`-providing package I
>> found when I started looking with `apt-cache search`.
>>
>>>> That's kind of a standard thing to be there on *nix systems...
>>>
>>> For better or worse, a default Debian installation seems to not omit
>>> various programs that have been standard on Unix systems.
> 
> Argh, I am sorry.  I meant to say just the opposite by leaving out the
> extra "not", 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.

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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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