On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We now appear to have *four* virtual provides for mail servers: > > MTA > smtpd > smtpdaemon > server(smtp) > > This seems a tad excessive. exim and postfix provide all four. sendmail > provides MTA, smtpdaemon and server(smtp). Nothing else provides any of > them (though if we could just agree on what any of them meant or what > they were for, probably esmtp and ssmtp might want to). > > Nothing requires 'smtpd'. One thing each requires each of the others, > just to make things nice and complicated: > > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires MTA > ratbox-services-0:1.2.1-8.fc19.x86_64 > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires "server(smtp)" > sagator-core-0:1.2.3-6.fc19.noarch > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires smtpdaemon > vacation-0:1.2.7.1-3.fc19.x86_64 > > Good lord. Anyone feel like injecting any sanity? Anyone have a long > enough memory to know what the hell each of the different provides is > meant for? I seem to vaguely recall that 'MTA' and 'smtpdaemon' were > meant to express subtly different things, but I can't remember any > details. Sanity: Switching to postfix? Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
