Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's

[Marc Joliet]

Am Sat, 04 May 2013 16:17:01 -0400
schrieb Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>:

> On 2013-05-04 3:27 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On 04/05/2013 18:52, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >> Ok, I have msmpt installed and working just fine.
> >>
> >> Now, all of a sudden, emerge -pvuDN world wants to install mailx.
> >>
> >> equery depends mailx says rkhunter is pulling it in via virtual/mailx
> >>
> >> Why isn't this dependency satisfied by the presence of msmtp?
> >>
> >> And more importantly, how can I fix it without installing mailx?
>
> > Simplest answer:
> >
> > It was never done because nobody did it.
> >
> > Whoever maintains virtual/mailx does so believing they have a decent set
> > of implementations available for you to use. There was never any
> > guarantee there that all possible satisfiers for virtual/mailx would be
> > listed.
> >
> > File a feature request at b.g.o. if you feel msmtp satsifies virtual/mailx.
>
> Actually, I'm not really concerned about virtual/mails...
>
> My question is why does it want to install the full program
> 'net-mail/mailx'? That would mean I had two mta's on my system, which
> should be a conflict, right? I know if I try to install postfix, it
> complains about msmtp as a blocker.

I have both postfix and mailx. You'll notice that the category of mailx is
mail-client and not mail-mta (or "net-mail", as you wrote). mail-client/mailx is
simply a command line email client used for automating the sending and
receiving of emails; on my system it is as far as I can tell only used by
smartmontools.

Unless msmtp also provides {,/usr}/bin/mail there isn't really an issue here.

HTH
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Marc Joliet
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