On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 01:36 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 01:27, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 15:27 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 15:26, Maciej Katafiasz wrote: > > > > Certainly, it's pretty ashaming that UNIX still hasn't obvious way to > > > > send stupid email, despite pioneering it some 30 years ago. > > > It does - sendmail. The problem is that modern clients don't use > > > sendmail to send mail, they all use their own built-in SMTP client code. > > > > Evolutions uses underlying sendmail. I should know. I _always_ send > > email, even while offline. > > Evolution has an option to use sendmail. I think it's the default. Most distributions already install an MTA that can deliver email if you can resolve addresses. > It also has an option to use > SMTP. I'd guess - and this is pure speculation - that most desktop users > configure it to use SMTP directly, since it's easier to configure SMTP > within evolution that to delve into sendmail [1] configuration. Most desktop users: probably. Most GNU/Linux desktop users: unlikely. But it's just as much speculation :) Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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