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=...
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226167
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