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  1. Bug #61265
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 61265

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In , Dato Simó (dato) wrote : Re: Bug#337714: mutt: Add msmtp as an alternative for mail-transport-agent in dependencies

block 337714 by 328123
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* Stefan Ott [Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:12:23 +0100]:

> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.5.9-2
> Severity: wishlist

> Hi

Hi Stefan,

> It would be nice if the dependecies were changed to "exim4 |
> mail-transport-agent | msmtp". msmtp is an smtp client that can be used
> to send mail from mutt. With msmtp installed mutt, works perfectly fine
> (eg. as an IMAP client) without the need of an MTA.

  Note that there is #328123 open against msmtp asking for it to provide
  mail-transport-agent. My current take on this bug is the following: I
  prefer not to touch mutt's Depends line until that bug in msmtp gets
  resolved: if msmtp ends up providing: m-t-a, this bug will be solved,
  and if the maintainer determines msmtp can't provide m-t-a, I will add
  "| msmtp" to mutt's Depend line.

  Does this sound reasonable to you? In the meantime, you can use equivs
  to create a dummy mail-transport-agent package.

  Cheers,

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