send email from command line

[Derek Broughton]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 22:22 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

>> Mail was written by people who believe that mail 
>> clients _shouldn't_ speak SMTP, and it _must_ have a sendmail-compatible
>> program to actually deliver the mail.
> 
> The above is one model, but there are mail user agents (MUAs) which can
> speak SMTP. (e.g. Evolution and Thunderbird among others). There is
> nothing in the standards (RFC2821) which prevent an MUA from speaking
> SMTP with a Mail Transport Agent (MTA).  

Absolutely not, and personally I'm a big fan of MUAs speaking SMTP.  
-- 
derek