It's not hijacking a thread if you start a new message (not reply) and choose a different subject, like this one ...
> could somebody > give me a quick run down (or link) on why you would use sendmail/qmail > at all? I just use mozilla's builtin mail agent, am I missing some > unixy goodness by not using sendmail/qmail? You receive all your email from your ISP, and send all your outgoing email to them too, using your wonderful shiny MUA (Mail User Application) They are running the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) and MDA (Mail Delivery Agent), for which they'll be using sendmail, qmail, Exim, Postfix or something else. However, underneath your user experience, things on your machine might want to send email - like cron job outputs and so on. For that they need a "mail" or "sendmail" interface, and the common way to get that is to run a MTA. Debian installs Exim by default, the "common" choice is sendmail. Often these will only handle local mail (until you reconfigure them), and not invoke the Internet at all. When you're running your own servers, you want them to handle email for your domains, rather than pay an ISP for each email address you need. That's what it's all about ... Oh, Rex - I think I see where you're coming from, despite the odd punctuation - sendmail probably does rule ducks :-) -jim
