Your message dated Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:54:57 +0000
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and subject line Re: uw-imapd: Description makes strange suggestions
has caused the Debian Bug report #318730,
regarding uw-imapd: Description makes strange suggestions
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Package: uw-imapd
Severity: wishlist
>From the Description:
> If you do install uw-imapd you will almost certainly want to install a
> Mail Transfer Agent such as Smail or Sendmail, as remote mail
> programs which use IMAP to access incoming and saved mail will
> usually want to send mail using SMTP, often to the same machine.
This advice is unlikely to be necessary on a Debian system, where
it's difficult to accidentally end up without an MTA in your initial
install. And the phrasing used here (with no comma after the word
"Agent") makes the "such as" unfortunately ambiguous - Smail and
Sendmail are really just two random MTAs, but it sounds as if they
have special features that make them more suitable than whatever MTA
is already installed. (Which is a pity, because Smail has RC bugs
and Sendmail is, well, Sendmail.)
What I'd suggest instead is first a dependency like this:
Recommends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent
And then a paragraph something like this in the Description:
> Remote mail programs which use IMAP to access incoming and saved mail
> will usually want to send mail using SMTP, often to the same machine;
> so uw-imapd Recommends an MTA. A simple one such as Ssmtp will do,
> as long as it's fully configured.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.hurakan
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
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Package: uw-imapd
Version 7:2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3
Followup-For: Bug #318730
And since I've probably got the syntax wrong, a human-readable
version: this is fixed in Stable and can be closed.
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JBR (original submitter)
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