Re: /usr/sbin/sendmail specification proposal, draft 4

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>]

gk4@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> For what it is worth, sendmail(8) is in section 8 of the BSD System
> Manager's Manual.    Applications like mail(1) and mailx(1) provide the
> user interfaces that are documented by the LSB.
> 
>    http://www.linuxbase.org/cu/
> 
> Is it within the scope of the LSB to create policies regarding the intended
> interfaces of system utilities like sendmail(8), rmt(8), talkd(8),
> telnetd(8), ...?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> PS:  It appears from the TOG and LSB charts that mailx(1) is the standard
> over the legacy mail(1) command.  Do we know for certain if all Linux
> systems will be using just one of sendmail, ssmtp, zmailer, or exim?

No, but *all* of these have a sendmail-esque MTA interface.  The point
here is that using mailx(1) to submit mail programatically is utterly
broken.  We need a standard MTA interface.

	-hpa