send email from command line

[Neil Cherry]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.  

In the single user world this is fine (such as Windows or Linux
Desktop) but on a multiuser world (such as multi-user servers) it
is a waste to permit so many network connections when one connection
can handle all the mail needs.

For most users Thunderbird and Evolution are fine. For my needs
a centralized server is the correct tool. As always, the correct
tool for the job works best.

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