Balcaen John a écrit :
Le Jeudi 22 Septembre 2011 22:32:25 Florian Hubold a écrit :
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You didn't seem to understand the part about nail.
nail aka mailx is an MTA and already in a default install, just
currently it doesn't work
without sendmail, it seems. nail is currently required by msec, so
msec per definition "needs" an MTA.
Well if i'm not wrong nail or mailx is an MUA (Mail User Agent) not an
MTA (Mail Transfer Agent).

You're right -- so we'll have to keep nail/mailx (or an equivalent) for the MUA side of the process. Although nail is supposed to handle both sides, (according to the description), it would likely be easier to add dma/dragonfly than to try fixing nail, which does the user agent side well. But if the MTA side of nail could be readily fixed ...

Since they've changed the name of nail to mailx upstream (according to the description), shouldn't we be packaging it as mailx now ? (With a provides nail, I assume.)

--
André

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