[TriLUG] OT: more than _MTA_

Lee elfick at trilug.org
Fri Jun 27 10:56:30 EDT 2003


Dan Monjar wrote:
> My distinction is that while sendmail can transfer mail and can delivery 
> mail to the spool it in no way helps with the reading of the mail.  
> People keep saying "I'll use sendmail to replace Exchange" and I'm 
> saying you can't do that.  You need several other programs along with 
> sendmail to do it.

But you can't read mail with just exchange either. You still need a 
client like Outlook, just as you need a client to read your mail if you 
used sendmail. I still fail to see your point.

-Lee




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