how to send an e-mail --- (a problem!)

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 08:18 -0400, Jack Gates wrote:
> On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:00, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > For this kind of reason (not trusting "mail" to be anything in
> > > particular) I always call sendmail itself, usually via this
> > > script:
> >
> > The above statement mystifies me. mail will do what it always did.
> > That is, send mail. mail has been the basic mail sending program
> > for decades in Unix and then Linux. sendmail was not designed to be
> > a mail client. --
> > Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
> 
> Not trying to be confrontational, just asking because I don't know and 
> have never messed with changing mail configurations beyond setting up 
> KMail to send and receive so I can get my mail.
> 
> What is Sendmail supposed to be designed to do?
sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent (mta). It takes mail sent by your mail
program and sends it to its destination. It also accepts mail addressed
to your machine and saves it in your mail spool directory.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>