> > > how about not running a full MTA on a laptop/client
install... at all?
> >
> > that would never be changed. So to have a full blown MTA for local
> > delivery is overkill for a vast majority of situations. I filed a bug
>
> It is true, but more to the point, full blown MTA can do local delivery
> without being started as daemons. So no MTA should be started in the
> default case.
With default configuration, only exim can deliver directly. Postfix
and sendmail need a daemon running or a cron job to actually deliver
the mail.
and exim needs perl and other massives dependencies. is there just a
local delivery agent?
Peter