None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

[Horst H. von Brand]

Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 17:34 +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote:

[...]

> > What happens to emails generated on a Max OSX via crontab or any other 
> > automated system?

> No clue about the MACs, but what about "mailx"?
> 
> It is mandated by POSIX and should be sufficient for local mail
> delivery.

Its manpage here doesn't mention local delivery, just caching and
disconnected operation for IMAP.

[Local delivery is normally handled by a separate program in any case,
 today typically procmail]
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