>To: [email protected] (Anthony Towns)
>> their web pages are themselves (/var/www, file:/var/www/foo.html). It's
>> not unreasonable for software to want to send mail, but that would mean
>> it'd need to use /usr/sbin/sendmail, not write to /var/mail/* directly.
>Think about mail _client_ applications. Elm, mutt etc do need to know where
>mail lives and do write back to it
The traditional way of sending mail from dumb programs is to call /bin/mail
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