send email from command line

[Derek Broughton]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:

> I don't see anything whilly-nilly or some kind of flip-floppery here.
> Use the MTA you want - there are quite a few to chose from, for example:
> $ LANG=C aptitude show mail-transport-agent
> No current or candidate version found for mail-transport-agent
> Package: mail-transport-agent
> State: not a real package
> Provided by: courier-mta, esmtp-run, exim4-daemon-heavy,
> exim4-daemon-light, masqmail, msmtp-mta, nbsmtp, nullmailer, postfix,
> sendmail-bin, smail, ssmtp, xmail
> Ubuntu doesn't tell you which MTA you have to use. It's the other way
> round.

It doesn't tell you which MTA you _must_ use - and never has - but it is odd
that they have switched the "depends" of every package I've checked
from "postfix | mail-transport-agent" to "exim4 | mail-transport-agent"

> If you don't want Exim, use something else. Staying with the Postfix you
> already have seems to be a good choice to me.

Staying with postfix is automatic, because everything that needs an MTA is
satisfied by either postfix or exim.

Nevertheless, it does seem like willy-nilly flip-floppery to me.  Ubuntu
made a conscious decision to change the default MTA from exim in Debian to
postfix, and now they've changed back.
-- 
derek