-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2014-07-21 a las 13:55 -0700, Marc Chamberlin escribió:
Can I ask the powers that be, why I am being somewhat forced to use an openSuSE supported MTA? I am running openSuSE 13.1 x64 and using YaST I cannot get it to NOT install an MTA. I am using the Apache James email server as my MTA and I want to use the mini-sendmail version of sendmail.
Don't blame openSUSE. Blame whoever packaged that mini-sendmail for not saying in the specs that it provides smtp service (smtp_daemon) - if it does provide it, I don't know if it does. As to your circles, use taboo, and break deps. Up toyou, of course.
It also seems to me that if I don't want ANY MTA on my system I ought to have that option.
No, you don't, as long as you still have another package installed that says it needs an MTA. That's how things work.
I may not want it to ever send email to anyone! PERIOD!
Then don't send them. Or configure it not to send outside. That's not the reason an MTA is installed in all Linux/Unix machines.
Is there a different route I should take to get these MTA's off my system and let whatever programs need one, to use the one I want to provide instead?
Just package that one properly :-) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlPNoCsACgkQja8UbcUWM1x8nAD/dhfMH7OesWso9kmF2zC86pjd //R/YAE9iYG3/BnCD4MA/AkOtAf91/V5224mM0HLzaPOtqUAfoo4ZmciF7AGd2hJ =UPhR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----