FS#4812 - mailx should require an smtp-forwarder or server

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 12:13 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 20 March 2009, 23:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

following tobias's idea in #4163, after making those changes, mailx should depend on smtp-forwarder as /usr/bin/mail calls /usr/sbin/sendmail.
Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 20 March 2009, 23:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  mailx-8.1.1-6
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 14 April 2007, 16:11 GMT
please see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5891
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 20 December 2007, 09:24 GMT
eric you have taken maintainership i remove myself
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 14:10 GMT
mailx can be used to both read and send email. So instead of listing an SMTP forwarder in depends=(), it should just echo a message in post install that if you want to use mailx to _send_ email, you should install sendmail or a sendmail drop-in like postfix.
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Tuesday, 07 October 2008, 15:39 GMT
Bump
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 22:31 GMT
Would someone mind compiling a list of possible mailers? That way we can simply add them as optdepends, which are echoed on install
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 11:34 GMT
Please review this report.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 13:54 GMT
what about just optdepends=(smtp-forwarder: for sending mail)?

pacman -Ss smtp-forwarder displays all providers and nothing else :
extra/msmtp 1.4.17-1 [0,09 MB]
a mini smtp client
extra/postfix 2.5.6-1 [3,00 MB]
Secure, fast, easy to administer drop in replacement for Sendmail (MTA)
extra/ssmtp 2.62-2 [0,02 MB]
Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mailhub

pacman -S smtp-forwarder will either propose you these three providers, or will just install the first msmtp, depending on your pacman version.

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