Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/14/1998 15:55:18
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> 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