> In this case, should the package just document what the use > should do (it will be different for each MTA) or at least > detect which MTA is installed and copy an example config file
Ensure that the depends: field in control has something like Depends: (sendmail | qmail | postfix) > in the correct place for whichever MTA is installed? Is this method correct? for pkg in sendmail qmail postfix; do if dpkg -s $pkg 2>/dev/null | grep -E "^Status: install ok installed" >/dev/null; then INSTPKG=$pkg fi done case $INSTPKG in sendmail) ... ;; qmail) ... ;; postfix) ... ;; esac