Package: esmtp Version: 1.2-12 Severity: wishlist So I wanted a simple way to send email from my Ubuntu VM, and this is the thing people generally use for this.
It was mostly a frustrating experience, so I would like to suggest some ways to improve this package, and I am happy to help do this by sending you patches etc.. - put /usr/bin/esmtp into /usr/sbin/esmtp instead, this is a system program like 'sendmail' so this makes more sense - split package into 'esmtp' and 'esmtp-core' instead of 'esmtp' and 'esmtp-run'. Two reasons for this, 1) this is the way packages are generally split these days and 2) a person should be able to just 'apt-get install esmtp' and have a working mail system, most people are not aware that they need to install 'esmtp-run' instead. So 'esmtp' would be 'esmtp-run' and 'esmtp-core' would be 'esmtp'. - make the debconf high priority. On most default installs, no one sees the debconf, and since this package is useless without configuration it makes sense to make the debconf high priority - smarter debconf config: we could make something like what thunderbird uses, where a person puts in their email address and password and it uses the Mozilla ISP database to figure out the SMTP server, port and settings. Those are my ideas, let me know if you are interested and I will be happy to implement them. This is a very important package and the way most people set up email when they do not need a complex MTA. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers vivid-updates APT policy: (500, 'vivid-updates'), (500, 'vivid-security'), (500, 'vivid'), (100, 'vivid-backports'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-25-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages esmtp depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.55ubuntu2 ii libc6 2.21-0ubuntu4 ii libesmtp6 1.0.6-4 esmtp recommends no packages. Versions of packages esmtp suggests: ii esmtp-run 1.2-12 ii procmail 3.22-24 -- debconf information: * esmtp/hostname: smtp.gmail.com * esmtp/starttls: required * esmtp/mda: procmail * esmtp/username: rkito...@gmail.com * esmtp/overwriteconfig: true * esmtp/hostport: 587
