None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 17:34 +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Chris Adams wrote:
> >> Once upon a time, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org> said:
> >>> most users on the client side use a mail client that has its own
> >>> queuing.
> >>
> >> Most _interactive_ users do.  Most automated tasks (e.g. cron) do not
> >> have any queueing.
> > 
> > Even if you are trying to dumb the system down to a Mac's 
> > pseudo-single-user style, you still need crontab and mail to work - as 
> > it does on a Mac.
> > 
> 
> What happens to emails generated on a Max OSX via crontab or any other 
> automated system?
No clue about the MACs, but what about "mailx"?

It is mandated by POSIX and should be sufficient for local mail
delivery.

Ralf