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on 05/05/2013 01:15 AM Tanstaafl wrote the following: |
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> On 2013-05-04 6:01 PM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> I have both postfix and mailx. You'll notice that the category of |
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>> mailx is |
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>> mail-client and not mail-mta (or "net-mail", as you wrote). |
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>> mail-client/mailx is |
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>> simply a command line email client used for automating the sending and |
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>> receiving of emails; on my system it is as far as I can tell only used by |
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>> smartmontools. |
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>> Unless msmtp also provides {,/usr}/bin/mail there isn't really an |
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>> issue here. |
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> Oh... ok, well, now I'm just wondering why it decided to install it all |
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> of a sudden... |
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> <shrug> |
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> Thanks |
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mail-client/mailx : The /bin/mail program, which is used to send mail |
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via shell scripts |
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mail-mta/ssmtp: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub |
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They are totally different and not alternate of each other. |
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