Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

[Tim]

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 12:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> If you ever work offline, sendmail will automatically queue and retry
> when the network is up.

This was one reason I set up local SMTP.  I wanted to send mail, and
quit the program.  I didn't want to have to make sure the LAN was
on-line to the ISP, I didn't want to have to manually send later because
it wasn't (whether that be dial-up that's not up at the moment, or an
ISP with a SMTP server that was down).  Because, not only was that
inconvenient, I might forget to send some mail, because "later" was the
next day.

With a local SMTP service, things were taken care of, automatically.  I
hit send, and the mail is queued and actually sent along when it's
possible to do so.

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