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

[Les Mikesell]

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? Does it run sendmail or some equivalent of it?

10.5 runs postfix.

> Just curious how they solve it as on a Mac i'd bet you that hardly any 
> typical user will know what root is.

I don't think anything in the default install sends mail, but if as a 
user you use 'crontab -e' to create a crontab entry, the output is 
delivered to /var/mail/yourlogin and the command line mail and mailx 
programs know where to find it as expected on any unix-like system.
Or you can set MAILTO=  in the crontab if you want it elsewhere. 
Following standards is a good thing...

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   Les Mikesell
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