8.04-alpha2 installs bad mail config

[Jeff DeFouw]

While making adjustments to a fresh install of mythbuntu 8.04-alpha2 from CD, I noticed odd DNS packets in the network activity. /etc/mailname had someone else's mail server name configured in it, along with someone else's mail relay configured for nullmailer. The system generated at least one message complaining about an invalid mail name, and then nullmailer kept trying to deliver it to a relay that didn't exist. At a minimum this creates extra work the system doesn't need to be doing. If mail needs to be configured, this should be done with user input during the install. Otherwise all mail should probably be discarded.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

There shouldn't be a mail relay installed by default. That's the real bug. It's coming in from a refreshed dependency of mythweather.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Will be fixed for alpha3. You may have to manually remove it for anything between 7.10 Final and 8.04 Alpha 3.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libmime-lite-perl - 3.020-2ubuntu1

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libmime-lite-perl (3.020-2ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Drop nullmailer|mail-transport-agent to Suggests. It's clearly
      not required in all cases as applications not making use of mail
      sending were getting it installed. (LP: #197192)
    - Update maintainer field.

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:49:41 -0600

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

If you didn't, please check and see if this bug: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=31245 is present in our version of MIME-Lite. If it is, lack of an MTA may cause MIME-Lite to crash. Additionally, "not required in all cases" sounds a lot more like it ought to be recommends than suggests.