Package: uw-imapd Severity: wishlist >From the Description: > If you do install uw-imapd you will almost certainly want to install a > Mail Transfer Agent such as Smail or Sendmail, as remote mail > programs which use IMAP to access incoming and saved mail will > usually want to send mail using SMTP, often to the same machine.
This advice is unlikely to be necessary on a Debian system, where it's difficult to accidentally end up without an MTA in your initial install. And the phrasing used here (with no comma after the word "Agent") makes the "such as" unfortunately ambiguous - Smail and Sendmail are really just two random MTAs, but it sounds as if they have special features that make them more suitable than whatever MTA is already installed. (Which is a pity, because Smail has RC bugs and Sendmail is, well, Sendmail.) What I'd suggest instead is first a dependency like this: Recommends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent And then a paragraph something like this in the Description: > Remote mail programs which use IMAP to access incoming and saved mail > will usually want to send mail using SMTP, often to the same machine; > so uw-imapd Recommends an MTA. A simple one such as Ssmtp will do, > as long as it's fully configured. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.hurakan Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
