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Bug#: 77398
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Status: RESOLVED
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Assigned To: Net-Mail Packages <net-mail@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Maurice Volaski <mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu>
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Description:   Opened: 2005-01-10 10:44 0000 
(This was originally reported as bug 69696, but it won't let me reopen that
one.)

The lack of providing virtual/mta seems to have more to do with how the ebuild
is setup than actually the functionality of msmtp.

That is, it seems that some of the other mtas in mail-mta provide virtual/mta
only if the mailwrapper use flag is enabled. And in any case, it just appears
to be providing a symlink for sendmail.

In that case, then the ebuild should probably be reworked so msmtp works like
the others.

------- Comment #1 From Grant Goodyear 2005-01-10 11:38:47 0000 ------- 
Actually, the reason that msmtp doesn't PROVIDE virtual/mta is that msmtp
doesn't 
provide the /usr/sbin/sendmail interface that many programs (such as cron)
expect.  Thus, msmtp cannot be used as a dependency for those programs. 
There's no reason that one couldn't modify msmtp to behave like ssmtp when run
via a /usr/sbin/sendmail symlink, but that's not really what msmtp was designed
for.

------- Comment #2 From Maurice Volaski 2005-01-10 14:10:53 0000 ------- 
See http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ It seems that in version msmtp 1.3.0 and
newer, sendmail interface options were added.

------- Comment #3 From Grant Goodyear 2005-01-11 09:11:39 0000 ------- 
Interesting.

Okay, reopening.  All yours, slarti!

------- Comment #4 From Tom Martin (RETIRED) 2005-01-14 07:39:11 0000 ------- 
Fixed in CVS, thanks for the report.
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