send email from command line

Erik Christiansen dvalin at internode.on.net
Wed Sep 24 12:16:47 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 05:55:14AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >   
>     Alas Hardy has Exim and your detailed help does not work. I wonder 
> why people decide to fix sendmail and then just make a confused MESS 

Oh dear, I wonder whether there is any rational justification for that?
I've accepted that I should discard years of familiarity with sendmail,
because postfix replaced it in ubuntu, and sendmail was said to be less
secure.

However, it is not acceptable for a distro to change MTA whilly-nilly.
The user cost is far too high. In the next decade, I'm planning to stay
with postfix, or change back to sendmail. Dumping the latest
flip-floppery in favour of our preference is the work of a few moments. 

So there is little reason why anyone need feel compelled to use exim, is
there?.

Erik

-- 
  The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them.
  -- Andy Tannenbaum




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