XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird, news.software.readers   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-01 15:21, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > > On 2026/1/31 18:2:38, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   [...]   
   > >> It's impossible for the newsreader to submit it because the newsreader   
   > >> isn't an email client.   
   > >   
   > > Good point, which I hadn't thought of. (I've always used combined   
   > > software - either one that does both like Turnpike or Thunderbird, or [I   
   > > think - long ago!] a suite that combined them, like modified KA9Q.)   
   >   
   > In Linux (and Unix), any program can submit an email. It is part of the   
   > system.   
      
     I don't know about Linux, but for 'Unix' it depends on how you define   
   'Unix'. AFAIR, before Berkeley Unix' sendmail, Unix only had 'mail[x]'   
   which could only send/receive e-mail to/from the same local system.   
   (Yes, there was UUCP-based e-mail, but that predates Internet mail.)   
      
     OTOH, in the very early 70s, we already used 'e-mail' before that term   
   was even known and probably not even invented! :-) The world-wide   
   intra-company system was called COMSYS, short for Communication System.   
   In comparison, while Wikipedia doesn't give a year for UUCP-based   
   e-mail, it probably came only it the late 70s and SMTP came only in   
   1983, a decade after 'us'. [1] [2]   
      
   > Of course, in many home systems this method is not configured and will fail.   
      
     On this mixed Windows/Cygwin system I use ssmtp(8), a send-only   
   sendmail emulator, to send e-mail (mostly administrative e-mail from   
   shell-scripts).   
      
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