send email from command line

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:

> 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
>

The nice thing about postfix for home machines is that its really easy to 
set it up to send on the submission port, rather than the standard smtp 
port.  Here in the states a lot of isps wont let you send on port 25.