8.04 MTA?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 16:32 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> I was unaware that an MTA isn't required for a desktop installation. I
> thought it was neccessary to transfer the mail from the server to the
> MUA, or in my case to Procmail.

A more typical desktop install, at least for Ubuntu's target users,
would be Evolution or Thunderbird fetching email from a remote POP or
IMAP server, and using the ISP's MTA.

It seems sensible to optimize for this case, as the procmail and
mutt-using folks are perfectly capable of installing their MTA of
preference :)