Comment 4 for bug 137994

Thanks for your bugreport and your patch.

I added more documentation about the need for the mailx package and added it to the "Suggests" in debian/control and write a propper error into the log if mailx is not available.

The reason why I didn't include your patch is that I would rather depend on a properly configured local mailsystem than on an additional configuration for the smtp server. Local working mail is required on a server for stuff like cron mails anyway, so I think its ok to assume that.

If you think that the smtplib based sending code is still useful for certain setups, we can still include it and use it if no /usr/bin/mail is available. Please let me know what you think!

Thanks,
 Michael