On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:35:27 -0400
"Colin Walters" <walters(a)verbum.org> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Chris Adams
<cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
wrote:
> Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters(a)verbum.org> said:
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters(a)verbum.org> said:
>> >> The desktop image no longer installs sendmail by default.
>> >
>> > What SMTP server is installed now?
>>
>> None.
>
> So what happens to messages from cron jobs and other standard Unix
> stuff that expects /bin/mail or /usr/sbin/sendmail to do something
> useful?
If there are cron jobs that send mail, we will deactivate them.
> What about mail clients like (IIRC) mutt that don't have an SMTP
> client built in?
You can install sendmail or some other server.
ssmtp seems what various other distros use for "tiny low overhead send
only servers"
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