Mutt dependency on Postfix?

[Bevan C. Bennett]

James Box wrote:
> 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 at 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