Comment 8 for bug 141641

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Jeff Licquia (jeff-licquia) wrote : Re: [Bug 141641] Re: installing lsb requires postfix

Martin Pitt wrote:
> As I pointed out, I'd object to that. We did such a thing in the past
> (ship a cripped MTA by default), and people didn't like us for that.
>
> The LSB requirement was certainly not written with the idea in mind to
> swallow all input to sendmail into a big black hole.

No, but ssmtp is neither a full MTA nor a "black hole". It requires
less configuration than postfix. It may not be the ideal solution, but
it may represent an improvement.