Le 07/07/17 à 16:39, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2017-07-07 05:19 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:41:33AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> On 2017-07-07 02:06 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: >>>> What was the reason for omitting mailutils (and, specifically, a >>>> functional /usr/bin/mail binary) from the default strech install? >>> >>> For the record, mailutils have never been part of a default install, but >>> bsd-mailx (which also provides /usr/bin/mail) was until Jessie. >> >> I stand corrected. bsd-mailx does sound more familiar, now that you >> mention it, but mailutils was the (first) `mail`-providing package I >> found when I started looking with `apt-cache search`. >> >>>> That's kind of a standard thing to be there on *nix systems... >>> >>> For better or worse, a default Debian installation seems to not omit >>> various programs that have been standard on Unix systems. > > Argh, I am sorry. I meant to say just the opposite by leaving out the > extra "not", In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority > standard or important to optional in recent years. This includes the > venerable "ed" text editor for instance, and also any package providing > /usr/bin/mail. Apparently the reason is that they pull in an MTA which > is also no longer included by default. Which seems sensible to me BTW.
A small relaying only MTA could be installed by default, eg ssmtp.