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Re: Mail. Mail! Mail?
Bernard Leak <bernard@brenda-arkle.demon.co.uk> writes:
> My system has developed, for hysterical reasons, as a minimal
> installation of GNU/Linux on a P4. Minimal really was minimal - no
> networking, no X... Everything else has been added on demand. I
> managed to get my networking running with no problems without ever
> encountering mail, Mail, mailx, or any version of sendmail. Don't
> blame the distribution - but surely I'm not alone in my position?
Interesting. I would have expected you to have trouble with cron,
which likes sending mail - or maybe you skipped it, too?
> Zack and Bob, however, *have* been helpful (thanks to both of you!),
> and in my darker and more cynical moments I suspect them of being
> experienced Unix persons themselves.
Aheh, yes, you could say that.
> Can something be done to make the problem less obstructive?
> It's not obvious that the script should try to be too clever and
> work out which name to use. Mail looks as useful as any name
> it can have hard-coded. However, a comment could be added
> to the script *output*
[... more useful suggestions ...]
This is where I quietly mention that patches are welcome.
zw