On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> Actually he does for the purpose of a command line
> driven message thingy. mail, mailx and mutt all expect there to be a local
> sendmail stand in. [ this assertion comes from a quick read of man pages and
> Googling.? It would be great to be wrong. ]
>
> Thunderbird and
> the rest of the graphical crowd, developed in a different era, all have the
> networking built in to use a remote MTA.

It seems very odd to me to have a UNIX(like) system without a functioning 
MTA installed... how do system messages, cron status mails, and the like, 
get sent?  Or do they simply not get sent at all?


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David Fleck
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