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.
next prev parent 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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