sendmail/postfix package required to run

[Rob Neville]

Not listed as a dependency but should be. The application wont run without sendmail (or equivalent) running

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

backuppc wants to send mail for status updates. Either this
needs to be changed, or it gets kicked into universe where it
can depend on 'ssmtp | mail-transport-agent'

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

The package now Recommends a MTA, and so in intrepid this problem
will be fixed for most people.

I'm not closing the bug, as if the package really does require one to
be installed then it should depend on it, rather than recommend it.

Thanks,

James

[PaulSchulz (paulschulz)]

In 'backuppc-3.0.0-4ubuntu1'

Depends: ... exim4 | sendmail | postfix | mail-transport-agent ...

Can this bug now be closed?

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

 backuppc (3.1.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * MTA dependency added. Closes: #458961
   * iputils-ping dependency added. Closes: #516147
   * remove the /etc/$webserver/conf.d/backuppc link if present. Closes: #516159
   * Small debian/rules fix. Closes: #488659
   * Apache1 dep removed. Closes: #488656
   * /etc/backuppc/localconfig.pl can be used for customizations to config.pl.
     Closes: #375998
   * Updated debconf translations. Closes: #513665, #503741
   * Enable basic auth apache2 modules

 -- Ludovic Drolez <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:29:55 +0100