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From: Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's
Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 02:46:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51859DE0.1020408@asyr.hopto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51858878.1040309@libertytrek.org>

on 05/05/2013 01:15 AM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
> On 2013-05-04 6:01 PM, Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
>> I have both postfix and mailx. You'll notice that the category of
>> mailx is
>> mail-client and not mail-mta (or "net-mail", as you wrote).
>> mail-client/mailx is
>> simply a command line email client used for automating the sending and
>> receiving of emails; on my system it is as far as I can tell only used by
>> smartmontools.
>>
>> Unless msmtp also provides {,/usr}/bin/mail there isn't really an
>> issue here.
> 
> Oh... ok, well, now I'm  just wondering why it decided to install it all
> of a sudden...
> 
> <shrug>
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
mail-client/mailx : The /bin/mail program, which is used to send mail
via shell scripts

mail-mta/ssmtp: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub

They are totally different and not alternate of each other.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-04 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-04 16:52 [gentoo-user] alternate mta's Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 19:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-04 20:17   ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 22:01     ` Marc Joliet
2013-05-04 22:15       ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 23:46         ` Thanasis [this message]
2013-05-05 14:28           ` SOLVED - " Tanstaafl
2013-05-05  9:45         ` Marc Joliet
2013-05-05  9:23     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-05 14:35       ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-05 15:46     ` Todd Goodman

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