Send/receive mail in text mode in ubuntu

[Wulfy]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
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>> Rashkae wrote:
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>>> Derek Broughton wrote:
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>>>> Sauro Cesaretti wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>> This is not really correct,, Sendmail implements smtp.. so does postfix
>>> and Exim... they do not 'implement' sendmail.
>>>       
>> Yes, it's _really_ correct.  They all install a /usr/bin/sendmail.  Every
>> single one of the half-dozen I've used.
>>     
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> oops - /usr/sbin/sendmail...
>   
I checked on my system (I have Exim4 installed)...

wulfy at localhost:/usr/sbin$ ls -l
total 7188
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      5 2007-06-05 04:22 rmail -> exim4
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      5 2007-06-05 04:22 rsmtp -> exim4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      5 2007-06-05 04:22 runq -> exim4
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      5 2007-06-05 04:22 sendmail -> exim4
...

All the mail program names are links to exim4...


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