On Fri, Jul 05, 2002, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote:
> Looking at our qpopper and imapd packages, I see that MTA is a dependency for
> qpopper but not imapd. I would expect it to be a dependency for neither,
> allowing these daemons to serve for preexisting mailboxes or systems using
> non-OpenPKG MTAs. Am I missing something?
qpopper AFAIK depends on MTA because of the POP3 extensions where you
also can _send_ mails via POP3. The same seems to be true for imapd
because I also think IMAP supports this. So imapd also should require an
MTA.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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