On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:22:59PM -0500, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
> 'man 1 mailx' on my Fedora 12 box notes this option:
> 
>     smtp   Normally, mailx invokes sendmail(8) directly to  transfer
>            messages.  If the smtp variable is set, a SMTP connection
>            to the server specified by the value of this variable  is
>            used  instead.  

Then I stand corrected, but this functionality would appear to be
quite new... none of the machines I have at my disposal at the moment
claim the same.  I suspect it's likely that Scott's machine won't
either, which is probably why he couldn't find what he was looking for
in the man page.  Historically, mail/mailx had no protocol support
built in because when it was written originally, SMTP was not the only
game in town, and it passed off delivery of messages to the thing that
new what you were using at your site.

As a side note, I've always been impressed with the quality and
completeness of man pages on Unix and Linux, save for those written by
the GNU Project. They abhor man pages, for some reason, opting instead
for their own system that's been adopted by narry anyone other than
GNU: info.  I think of info kind of like betamax: it's technically
better in some ways, but the cost is higher and users generally don't
care. ;-)

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