Re: Default of send-mail-function

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> * GNU/Linux
>   - debian: manoj, please help me fill in this. Desktop? Other?
>   - ubuntu: I guess system default mail, but other knows better than me

I don't think its as simple as which distribution you use. It depends on 
whether you choose to install a full mail server (which may be part of 
the defaults on some distributions, or it may depend on choices made at 
install time), and it depends on whether that server is configured 
correctly.
Manoj is right - in multi-user environments with a qualified 
administrator looking after the machines, sendmail is going to be less 
problematic than expecting all users to set up their mail client. But 
increasingly GNU/Linux is being used in single user desktop environments.