Hi Julian On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:06:17PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 06:32:20PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Package: esmtp > > Version: 1.2-3 > > Severity: normal > > > > Esmtp does not appear to work for local mail delivery without > > procmail being available. Please depend on procmail or at least > > recommend it instead of just suggesting it. > > Thanks for your bugreport. Yes this is correct, esmtp relies upon a > MDA for local mail delivery. However in my opinion I think it would be > better to move it to Recommends instead of Depends, as there is still > a choise if someone want's to use another MTA for doing local > delivery. We have currently in the README.gz the following: > > <<esmtp>> relies upon a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) for local mail delivery, > so > you need one if you want to avoid having another MTA for local delivery. > > I will move the alternate choice for the MDA from Suggests to > Recommends.
Ok, I thought again a bit to it. As esmtp is not a full features MTA with some restriction, I think it may absolutely legitimate to have running a full fatured MTA on the same host, and say, only installing esmtp without esmtp-mta package. My reasoning thus will be to lower 'Dependency' on esmtp-mta to the same relationship field as the alternate choise for a mda. This is mostly the same as mstmp package does too, and I will try to follow that direction, to only suggest esmtp-mta instead of recommends esmtp-mta, which on mostly each user installation will pull in esmtp-mta, even if maybe not wanted, due to the reasoning above. I have commited these changes this way into my git repository for maintaining esmtp. I will look, if some other changes are pending before uploading. Bests Salvatore
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