Re: e-mail applications

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Martin P Holland wrote:

> >
> >SMTP POP3 are protocols, not software.
>
> I'm guessing but I expect that Richard wants his apps to work whether or not
> people have sendmail set up properly on their system (or even installed at
all).
>
> A single-user machine doesn't really need to have sendmail.
^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh yes it does (or some substitute) so that local mail can be delivered.
True you don't need it running as a daemon if it a stand-alone (not single
user please) machine. I use email to self for leaving notes and info.
When my machine boots as part of tidying up syslogs etc it emails root and
my main account with what it has done etc etc

You should NEVER be using linux as a genuine single user machine - this
implies everything is done as root. You should have at least two accounts
- root and a user one. You should preferably have several accounts for
doing different things - it called good house keeping.

But I think you meant stand alone.

cheers
Jim

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