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Re: email servers



On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 01:16 +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:56:39AM -0500, 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"?
> 
> Doesn't "mail" send messages through "sendmail | exim | ..." ?

Yes.  I was just surprised that cron spoke directly to sendmail.

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