Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a naive question and a comment. Does cyrus need to depend on an MTA at all? Couldn't it receive from and send to mail servers on another machine? Admittedly, this would be unlikely in all but large installations. The comment is that, while getting cyrus working was challening, I

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-25 Thread Ondřej Surý
2008/8/25 Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a naive question and a comment. Does cyrus need to depend on an MTA at all? Couldn't it receive from and send to mail servers on another machine? Admittedly, this would be unlikely in all but large installations. Well, in case of large

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Ross Boylan wrote: Does cyrus need to depend on an MTA at all? Couldn't it receive from Yes. /sbin/sendmail is REQUIRED for Sieve to work as per the RFC, so at the very least, lmtpd will need it. remember getting it to work with exim was pretty easy. There might have

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: I'm guessing that postfix is there for hysterical raisins. I do know that everybody on the packaging team does use postfix so that may be it. Correct. None of us could support exim4, and ended up asking people to take their doubts elsewhere

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Andreas Henriksson
I see your problem, but on the other hand I don't think the current dep expresses it correctly. For anyone who already has an mta installed (which is a pretty high risk) the postfix | m-t-a will not do anything like you wish for. I don't know how the package management tools handle this, but I

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Ondřej Surý
2008/8/21 Andreas Henriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I see your problem, but on the other hand I don't think the current dep expresses it correctly. For anyone who already has an mta installed (which is a pretty high risk) the postfix | m-t-a will not do anything like you wish for. I don't know

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Andreas Henriksson wrote: I see your problem, but on the other hand I don't think the current dep expresses it correctly. For anyone who already has an mta installed (which is a pretty high risk) the postfix | m-t-a will not do anything like you wish for. If someone

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-20 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Package: cyrus-common-2.2 Severity: normal Hello! Your packag depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent. Exim (v4) is generally considered the default mta in Debian and is also the package providing mail-transport-agent which has the highest priority. Is there any particular reason why your

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-20 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
severity 495844 minor thanks Andreas Henriksson wrote: Package: cyrus-common-2.2 Severity: normal Hello! Your packag depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent. Exim (v4) is generally considered the default mta in Debian and is also the package providing mail-transport-agent which has the

Bug#495844: package deviates from standard mail-transport-agent dependency.

2008-08-20 Thread Ondřej Surý
severity 495844 wishlist tags 495844 +wontfix thank you I think that Benjamin already told everything. You have to provide non-virtual alternative and our choise was postfix, because we can help our users better since we all are using postfix as our MTA of choise. Ondrej. P.S.: I think this bug