Re: email servers
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:43 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Monday 03 April 2006 09:56, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:48 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
> > > > Does cron talk to the MTA with the SMTP port?
> > >
> > > No, it pipes messages to /usr/sbin/sendmail.
> >
> > Why doesn't it use "mail"?
>
> Because mail just pipes outgoing to /usr/sbin/sendmail anyway?
That's a good enough answer. And I learn something.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it
is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows
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