<mail> command missing?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 12/17/05, Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 19:57, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > There has been discussions about how to do with
> > Mail ever since the spring, with the aim to apply the changes for
> > Breezy.   I suspect the root of mailx not being installed by default
> > comes from these discussions.  See for example this spec from UDU in
> > April:
> >   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MailRoadmap
>
> That discussion, initiated by MattZimmerman, proposed switching
> from Exim to Postfix, standardising on Maildir format in a
> non-standard but sensible ~/.maildir directory, and eventually
> making all mail apps automagically work together when installed.
> All excellent points.
>
> If there's an official explanation for dumping Postfix and Mailx I
> haven't found it yet.

but there was some hints in there about totally getting rid of all
this for normal users.  See for example at the end:

"What about replacing the MTA with SSMTP and configure all clients to
use that as the standard smtp "gateway"? "

This sounds like  getting rid of postfix all together and have only by
default applications that can talk to a smtp server directly (which I
believe is not case of mailx).

I agree that's not an official explanation, but I suspect the seeds of
these type of changes came from these discussions in the spring.



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Daniel Robitaille