Having worked with Unix systems for almost 20 years, many
of them as an admin, I rather rely on the existance of a
mailer program on the system, than on a remote service
being available. Whether that's my "provider" or not.
(The world isn't all web you know). Networks are unreliable.
Machines aren't 100% up. Services can be overloaded.
And then there's of course maintability. I rather change the
configuration file of my MTA once if the smarthost changes,
then hundreds of itty bitty programs that think they're smart
contacting the smarthost themselves.
Abigail
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