Re: Inclusion of sendmail and patch

Dan Kegel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lee W wrote:
 > "Matt Taggart" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ... It is useful for LSB developers to be able to have their
>>applications send mail, without having to deliver their own MTA.

 > do we need effectively a mail
> server on every one of the workstations?

You still misunderstand.  sendmail is there in the LSB
to serve as a mail sending agent.  In other words, it's
an SMTP client, kind of.  It lets programs connect to
SMTP servers.

- Dan

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