Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 10:13 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote:
> (b) Without sendmail or another MTA there, there is zero chance of
> being able to send outbound e-mail without doing configuration.

Assuming that "configuration" here is meant in the sense of
"configuration of an MTA" this is simply not true. Every MUA I know
allows you to send directly to port 25 of your upstream provider.

poc