Bruno Wolff III wrote:
Besides, you said it requires an MTA. Would an effort to add the ability to detect the availability of /sbin/sendmail in the above-mentioned packages and use it if available or speak SMTP over port 25 if not be desirable? Packages like evolution and thunderbird do that and therefore don't "Require: sendmail".
Mutt isn't going to be able to use smtp.
As of 1.5.15 the world turned inside out and upside down and mutt grew support for SMTP:
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/browser/ChangeLog#L1183
(The temperature in Hades may have even dropped by a few degrees, but that's not confirmed. :)
You really do want something local to store messages in case there is a temporary problem in sending the mail out. However, you could conceivably use mutt just to read email from a remote imap server. That is probably not a likely use case though.
Are there a lot of mutt users who aren't capable of doing the needed configuration to match their setup? It seems like one package that could survive without a "hold the users hand" approach to the possible things it might depend on. ;-)
As of cvs rev 1.47, mutt.spec no longer requires sendmail. See:
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/mutt/mutt.spec?r1=1.46&r2=1.4...
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226167