<mail> command missing?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Dec 15 14:29:25 UTC 2005


Mike Bird wrote:

> 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:

There's no need to be insulting.
> 
> 1) mailx is just as important on desktops:

Yes, it is.  I pushed for not forcing Postfix onto the system, but that's
because it's overkill for what Ubuntu promises.  
-- 
derek





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