Bug 578996 – virtual/mailx: opensmtpd missing

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description fkater 2016-04-04 09:14:38 UTC]

IMHO virtual/mailx should be satisfied by opensmptd, too.  This package is,
however, not listed in none of the virtual/mailx ebuilds.

As a result, e.g. sys-power/apcupsd pulls in virtual/mailx which in turn pulls
in mail packages like mailx even if opensmtpd is present.



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 fkater 2016-09-19 07:53:32 UTC]

FYI: Still an issue.

[Comment 2 fkater 2017-02-15 09:14:10 UTC]

Still an issue...

[Comment 3 Gabriel 2020-09-12 08:57:32 UTC]

fkater: out of curiosity, how will you read mails if mailx doesn't pull e.g., mailutils? I don't think opensmtpd provides such utilities.

[Comment 4 fkater 2020-09-12 15:52:32 UTC]

Maybe we can see it the other way round.

apcupsd (which is for the uninterruptable power supplies from APC) is a
package that wants to send out notifications via email.

If virtual/mailx is meant for enabling an OS to send *and* receive mail, then
it shouldn't be pulled in by packages that simply send.

We'd probably require something like virtual/sendmail or so and make apcupsd
depend on that. Especially in the times of IMAP.

[Comment 5 Eray Aslan 2020-09-19 06:51:00 UTC]

I think virtual/mailx is meant for different implementations of standard /bin/mail interface

I am not really familiar with opensmtpd