Send/receive mail in text mode in ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

John L Fjellstad wrote:

> Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> writes:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Most MTA on unix systems implements the sendmail binary these days so
> that calling /usr/sbin/sendmail to send your email is pretty much
> standard

Thank you John.  In fact, they implement sendmail specifically because
calling /usr/sbin/sendmail was already the standard before Linux existed.
-- 
derek