On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:05:11PM +0100, Julien Louis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:49:03AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Bumping severity on this; it doesn't make msmtp unusable for everyone, but > > it does for me. I use msmtp to send mail over TLS for a work address, and > > exim4 to send and receive local mail. Removing one or the other is not > > workable for me. > > Is msmtp really unusable for you ? or do you only complain you can't > receive any local mail anymore ? In the first case, it would be nice if > you can provide more information. If you are in the second case, it's > another problem, should smtp client provides mail-transport-agent > virtual packages or not. Most of packaged SMTP clients provide > mail-transport-agent and few of them can handle local mail. > According to the policy each package which provides > mail-transport-agent *must* conflict and replace mail-transport-agent. > > I was asked this feature for more than 1 year either by bug report and > by private mails. Most of users use this program on a laptop where > local mail (e.g. crontabs) doesn't care and if they *really* care they > can setup cron, debconf and probably other programs to send their mail > to a remote email address and not a local one.
I receive real email on this system. I also have to use TLS and password authentication to send mail. I have exim installed to receive mail (which msmtp can not do), and msmtp installed to send mail over TLS (which exim probably could do, but msmtp is much more convenient because I can write a tiny config file and keep it in $HOME). One possible solution would be a separate binary msmtp-mta package with the /usr/bin/sendmail link, maybe. It looks like esmtp-run and hula-mta already do this. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
