On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 07:49:44PM +1100, Tim Churches wrote: > > Ah, so then you don't have standard e-mail set up on *your* > > system. Standard e-mail in a UNIX environment means there's a > > demon listening on port smtp (25, I think) that knows how to > > deal with e-mail. > > That is only true for a server machine. Not so. Exactly what IS a server machine in the UNIX sense ?
> It would be unusual to have an > SMTP daemon listening on port 25 on a workstation machine. I've always been running sendmail as a queuing demon even on my laptops. The advantage is that there's a well defined API for sending mail, namely SMTP. Whether the demon is started on demand by intetd or is always running is a peripheral matter, of course. All this is hardly a matter worth discussing for 0.1, methinks. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
