[Bug 243631] Review Request: msmtp - an SMTP client

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Summary: Review Request: msmtp - an SMTP client


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243631





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2007-06-30 19:52 EST -------
(In reply to comment #37)
 
> With respect to comment #24 and #25: I think that all packages which require
> smtpdaemon, MTA and usr/sbin/sendmail should be hunt down, tested, the real
> resource that they need should be identified and the package fixed according to
> the proposal in comment #25. 

It seems to me that basically all the Requires for smtpdaemon 
and /usr/sbin/sendmail are right, especially now that mutt 
won't have the /usr/sbin/sendmail requires anymore.

> However I think that the provides which are
> supported by the application (such as mailq for ssmtp - despite the fact that it
> does nothing) should be kept.

Why should they be kept if they do nothing? It tricks the application
or the user than wants to use it, that's no good. However the 
package that use alternatives for mailq but in fact doesn't really 
implement it (ssmtp and esmtp) don't Provides it, so it is right
in my opinion.

> For what is worth:
> - syslog (and syslog-ng) and mdadm work very happy directly with the
> /usr/sbin/sendmail file. I use them for almost an year on lots of live servers
> with ssmtp relaying the messages to the core logging server. So I bet that if
> msmtp would install a correctly configured alternative for /usr/sbin/sendmail
> these packages would not break.

It depends whether a /usr/sbin/sendmail without local delivery is
right or not. I think that what I will do with esmtp is still provides
sendmail, but with lower priority. And I will leave only /usr/sbin/sendmail
in alternatives.


In any case I really think that Provides MTA should be removed.



> - squirrelmail can be configured to use either the sendmail binary directly or a
>  SMTP server running on port 25. OTOH I am almost sure that no one installing a
> webmail server would want to use esmtp/msmtp/ssmtp as backend.

squirrelmail requires /usr/sbin/sendmail, this is quite right.

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