difference on sendmail and mailx commands

[kukuluku]

Hello,

We just upgraded HP-UX to 11i. We were using elm to send mail. Can anyone tell me the difference among these commands: elm, sendmail and mailx? What is the standard? Which one has better benefit than others?

Thank you very much in advance.

 

[rkirkw]

mailx is on both Solaris and HP-UX and allows you to put a Subject from the command line, so I put this one in scripts.
elm has a better user interface so I use this to read mail on HP-UX servers.
sendmail should not be used directly. If you do a man sendmail it will tell you this as well. Only mail clients should use sendmail

 

[jxmac18]

Get hold of pine. Much better if email is important to you.
Otherwise elm is good. mail/mailx don't bother, except for scripting with.

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Jack

 

[Martin999]

I could b wrong - but I thought everything uses sendmail, mailx etc ... are just diff. front ends.

Can anyone confirm this ???

Martin