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[Derek Broughton]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:47 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>> To get mail just use sudo apt-get install mailx and mailutil
> 
> mailx is pretty ancient software, but is still usable.  I would not at
> this time recommend it for the casual mail user.

Well, it's a pain for actually _reading_ mail, but it's pretty much
necessary if you want things like cron to deliver mail for you
-- 
derek