Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits

[Michael Graff <explorer%flame.org@localhost>]

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost> writes:

> Michael Graff writes:
> > Wouldn't this all be simplier if there was a library function to send
> > mail,
> 
> Given that we don't control the sources to mush, mh, elm, or twenty
> other programs, the answer is "no, it wouldn't".

I have always thought the biggest block for developing in a Unix world
is that there is no API for doing little things like sending mail,
printing a file, etc.

Sure, forking and calling sendmail works, but that is hardly an API.

I would hope that those mail programs would eventually add support for
a mail-sending (and hopefully receiving) API.  I'd not limit the library
to NetBSD, btw, which i think you assumed.

--Michael