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# spec file for package lsb-invalid-mta
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%define _name   sendmail
Name:           lsb-invalid-mta
Version:        0.1
Release:        0
Summary:        Linux Standard Base sendmail dummy
License:        GPL-2.0
Group:          Productivity/Networking/Email/Servers
Provides:       smtp_daemon
BuildArch:      noarch
Conflicts:      sendmail
Conflicts:      exim
Conflicts:      postfix

%description
The Linux Standard Base (http://linuxbase.org/) is a standard core system
that third-party applications written for GNU/Linux can depend upon.

This package contains nothing else than a fake /usr/sbin/sendmail command to
fulfill the LSB's requirement of providing this command without requiring an
MTA to get installed, which once introduces a daemon which can cause security
problems and second, users get asked questions about how they want their MTA
configured when in reality they simply wanted to install a desktop application
or a printer driver, but the dependency on LSB compliance pulls in an MTA with
the installation.

The LSB requirement on /usr/sbin/sendmail comes from old times where Linux and
UNIX machines had all fixed IPs and did server tasks in data centers. Today's
typical desktop Linux machines do not do local e-mail any more as users use
external e-mail services.

The /usr/sbin/sendmail always exits with exit status -1 (255) and sends a
warning message to stderr, so that if a program actually tries to send
e-mail via the sendmail command the user gets note.

Description and files inside this package were suggested in Debian LSB.

%prep
cat > %{_name} << EOF
#!/bin/sh

echo "Please install an MTA on this system if you want to use %{_name}!" >&2
exit 255
EOF

%build
# Nothing to build.

%install
install -Dm 0755 %{_name} %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/%{_name}
install -Dm 0755 %{_name} %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/%{_name}

%files
%defattr (-,root,root)
%{_sbindir}/%{_name}
%{_libexecdir}/%{_name}

%changelog

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