I've searched but can't seem to find an answer to this question.
Does anyone know why the latest update to mutt (mutt-1.4.1-5) requires me to install postfix?
I don't want postfix. I'm happy using exim. The previous release doesn't require postfix. I believe it just has a dependency for a "smtpdaemon".
It doesn't require postfix, AFAICT, just any 'smtpdaemon'.
Does your exim package provide smtpdaemon? If not you'll need to install sendmail or postfix (either satisfies the requirement).
[bevan@saladin fedora-1-updates]> rpm -qp --requires mutt-1.4.1-5.i386.rpm /bin/bash /bin/sh config(mutt) = 5:1.4.1-5 gettext libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.3) libcom_err.so.2 libcrypto.so.4 libgssapi_krb5.so.2 libk5crypto.so.3 libkrb5.so.3 libm.so.6 libncursesw.so.5 libresolv.so.2 libsasl.so.7 libslang-utf8.so.1 libssl.so.4 mailcap rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 slang >= 0.99.38 smtpdaemon webclient
