mutt recommends installing MTA which is no longer needed

Bug #1143862 reported by C Pirnat
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mutt (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Since version 1.5.15 of Mutt SMTP is built in to mutt a MTA is no longer needed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: mutt (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-24.37-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 4 03:20:07 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mutt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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C Pirnat (histoplasmosis) wrote :

sudo apt-get install mutt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libtokyocabinet9 postfix
Suggested packages:
  urlview mixmaster procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap
  postfix-pcre sasl2-bin dovecot-common postfix-cdb postfix-doc
Recommended packages:
  default-mta mail-transport-agent
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libtokyocabinet9 mutt postfix
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,732 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,713 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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description: updated
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Bill Duetschler (bikergeek) wrote :

Seems to me this is a dupe of 1296389.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in mutt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Bill Duetschler (bikergeek) wrote :

D'oh, 1296389 is a dupe of this bug, sorry about that.

tags: added: yakkety
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