<mail> command missing?

[Phillip Susi]

Holy flame war!  This thread has gone crazy.  I don't feel like ubuntu 
needs a local MTA, in fact, I've allways felt it kind of odd to have 
one.  Your typical home user has absolutely no need for it.  If they 
want to leave notes they can make a shared text file to edit, and put a 
link to it on their desktop.  Otherwise, they don't care about the 
output of cron jobs.

I run ubuntu on a server at work.  I set up a few cron jobs to perform 
automatic backups.  I don't miss a local MTA at all.  If I really want 
to log the output of the cron jobs, I can simply redirect the output to 
a log file.  I never really understood why cron emails you the log 
instead of just moving it to your ~/.cronjobs or something.

Rather few people want or care about a local MTA, and those that do can 
easily install one.  I don't think it is asking too much that system 
administrators notice that there is no MTA by default, and so if they 
really want one, to install it.


David wrote:
> I've just done my second fresh install of Breezy (both for friends). 
> Apparently the "mail" unix command is missing! These seems really odd. 
> Have I missed something obvious?
> 
> It's not available from apt and I thought it was a basic shell command.
> 
> It's still there on two other machines that I upgraded from Hoary.
> /usr/bin/mail
> 
> David.
>