Then is the ultimate goal to create a GNU libmta.so or libmapi.so for UNIX/Linux? Could we note this in the LSB specification that this is what is needed for consistency, then create an LSB/GNU todo to have a new subproject created?
George Kraft IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-838-2688; t/l 678-2688 Linux Technology Center IBM, Austin Texas "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/30/99 11:31:23 AM To: George Kraft/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /usr/sbin/sendmail specification proposal, draft 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For what it is worth, sendmail(8) is in section 8 of the BSD System > Manager's Manual. Applications like mail(1) and mailx(1) provide the > user interfaces that are documented by the LSB. > > http://www.linuxbase.org/cu/ > > Is it within the scope of the LSB to create policies regarding the intended > interfaces of system utilities like sendmail(8), rmt(8), talkd(8), > telnetd(8), ...? > > Cheers, > > PS: It appears from the TOG and LSB charts that mailx(1) is the standard > over the legacy mail(1) command. Do we know for certain if all Linux > systems will be using just one of sendmail, ssmtp, zmailer, or exim? No, but *all* of these have a sendmail-esque MTA interface. The point here is that using mailx(1) to submit mail programatically is utterly broken. We need a standard MTA interface. -hpa
