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? -- David Fleck [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
