ken wrote: > On 04/17/2007 09:36 PM somebody named Joachim Schrod wrote: > >> ken wrote: >> >>> Yes! You got it!!! And this was my original question!!!! Which mail >>> client? Remember, I already mentioned mail/mailx/nail. The problem is >>> that the documentation for these is worthless. So if anyone knows how >>> to set up an account using ~/.nailrc and/or ~/.mailrc and/or CL args to >>> set up the connection for /sending/ mail (WithOut a Local Server), we >>> might be able to accomplish something. >>> >> I have never used a Linux (or any other Unix system, for that matter) >> without a locally configured mail system -- it is a sure disaster >> waiting to happen. Therefore I was never in your situation. >> > > So if your organization asks you to set up 2000 workstations, you > install 2000 mail servers? They should give you a plaque on the wall. > > > Ho hum... I think it has already been stated a mail server is a defined as machine with a capability to deliver to and accept e-Mail from other machines using SMTP, and that using SMTP internally to transmit operational information does not make the machine a mail server!!!. (In the same way that accessing a html document stored locally on a machine with a Web Browser does not make that machine a web server.!!!!) Logic 101 methinks....
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