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Seems like too much work
Authored by: ethomas on Mar 19, '04 06:49:07AM

The point here is that you can now (once again) use Mail.app to read your local unix system mailboxes (i.e. johndoe@localhost) without running a local mail server. If I remember correctly, Mail.app in OS X 10.0 could do this, but Apple pulled this functionality from subsequent versions.

Anyway, this is very handy if, for example, you use cron regularly:

From the cron man pages:

When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists).



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