send email from command line

[Derek Broughton]

Neil Cherry wrote:

> 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.

Oh, sure, I completely agree with that.  And even on my 2 user system, I run
an MTA.  And my SMTP-speaking MUAs use localhost:25

-- 
derek