On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:37:17 +0200, A. Dumas wrote:

> Op 14-7-2019 10:04, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> it's  [mail] about the only way a headless process can communicate:
>> exim to dump mail to a smart host is idiotically simple to set up  soo
>> root@pi cand tell you what went wrong
>>
>> I believe thats why its there.
>
> I know that from the old days with pine & mutt etc, but also recently
> because yes, that's how the scheduler 'at' operates. Sorry to keep
> banging on about that program but it has been the only thing for me in
> the last few years that wanted an mta.
>
The all - purpose MTA used to be the horrible sendmail. I gave up on
making any configuraton changes to it when even the O'Reilly book about
it was so bad that to silently omitted and mention of one of the major
configuration sections. I switched to using Postfix at that point and
have never looked back since.

> So what I'm saying is, it's not there in a fresh install.
>
Understood, so presumably 'at' isn't there either.

However, last nights change shows that 'at' doesn't require Exim
specifically: any full-featured MTA is acceptable.


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