>One could introduce another virtual package (e.g., local-mail), have sendmail >depend on this. Both procmail and deliver could provide this package. Sounds >like a bit of an overkill for this problem, though.
Umm, no. There are many ways of configuring sendmail, and a number of these (including one of the supplied configurations) do not require local mail delivery. Indeed, I've got quite a few debian 1.1 machines here happily running sendmail without local mail delivery (since I use a mailhost). 'Recommends' my be appropriate here. Depends? Nope. I can very easily configure and run sendmail in a sane manner without ever needing deliver, procmail, mail.local, or such. Please, don't 'depend' on things unless they are *really* needed. -- Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
