Send/receive mail in text mode in ubuntu

[Rashkae]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Sauro Cesaretti wrote:
> 
>> First of all, I'd like to avoid postfix and sendmail.
> 
> You can't avoid "sendmail".  You're going to need _some_ mail transfer
> agent, and they all implement sendmail.

This is not really correct,, Sendmail implements smtp.. so does postfix 
and Exim... they do not 'implement' sendmail.


> Exim isn't going to solve any fetchmail errors.  The error you were getting
> was caused by the fact that no SMTP server was running and fetchmail, by
> default, delivers mail to the SMTP server on localhost:25.

Exim is an SMTP server, and a perfectly good alternative to Sendmail.. 
(In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I believe Exim is the default mailserver 
for Debian distro, although most distros use Postfix now... Slackware 
might well be the last Linux distro to package sendmail by default)