From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-08-17T13:30:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Unix Philosophy in Ruby Programing

On Monday, August 16, 2010 09:41:49 am mberg@damnation.org wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Diego Bernardes wrote:
> > Why build a gem/program to send mail if you can send with sendmail?
> > Why build process monitor if you can use monit?
> > And so..
> 
> In the specific case of sendmail as a mailing interface, there are
> obviously the issues with portability and availability that others have
> been brought up, but it's also not a particularly flexible or well-defined
> interface for sending mail.

Bingo. This is probably the second biggest reason for doing it this way.

> There are also a number of bugs and inconsistencies in the behaviour of
> the interface as implemented by some MTAs;

But the same can be said about SMTP, so I don't really buy this.