On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > X-Debbugs-CC: Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Santiago, > > There is this bug about Alpine not sending mail by default. Since not all > systems will have a working MTA on localhost, what do you think would be a > reasonable thing to do about it?
Does mutt not have the same "problem"? If yes, I would call this a feature, not a bug. I use pine because it was installed in the main mail server in my University, and the people who installed it are the same people who made the MTA to work. Just because we can have now our own Unix machine at home does not mean pine (or alpine) should worry about the configuration of another package (the MTA). If it makes you feel better as a packager you can make alpine to Depends on mail-transport-agent, or Recommends, or just Suggests. [ pine has a Suggests because it is perfectly acceptable to send email by using a SMTP server in a machine different than the one having pine installed ]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
