<mail> command missing?

[Mike Bird]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:26, Peter Garrett wrote:
> I assume the "server" version that just came out respects the needs of
> those who use cron and friends, and who want to receive mail from root to
> keep themselves informed. For the desktop, installing mailx pulls in
> postfix - or I guess you can choose your mta and install that instead?

Bzzt, sorry:

1) mailx is just as important on desktops:
  BIG BOSS: Cronjob WTF?
  SYSADMIN: I'll install mailx on your laptop when you get back from
            Tokyo.  If it still happens after that we can figure out
            what's been breaking.  Meantime, I'll start updating my
            resume shall I?
  
2) mailx is not even installed in server versions:
  http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/seeds/ubuntu-server-breezy/
  http://wiki.edubuntu.org/SeedManagement

We of course have procedures to deal with this stuff.  The problem
is the new convert who loses an email or a client or a job because
of the perfectly reasonable expectation that a Linux distro's
default configuration is not going to silently discard important
emails.

--Mike Bird