SMTP is Email so what is the mail you get from logging?
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SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Mail from a logging event for example on a local Linux server is according to @scottalanmiller just logs. Now the generation of the log to me is the logging event, the notification to me is mail, obviously not email because it isn't traversing the internet nor is it using SMTP to go to it's destination. Yet the user is alerted to "You have mail".
So what is this mechanism that notifies the user/admin(root) of events on the local system that should be reviewed (read)?
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Updated to add tags.
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It's a text file. The mechanism is just a login time script that looks for new text at the end of the file (actually "since last login.") Thats all, just a script in the bash_rc or profile.
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@scottalanmiller said in SMTP is Email so what is the mail you get from logging?:
It's a text file. The mechanism is just a login time script that looks for new text at the end of the file (actually "since last login.") Thats all, just a script in the bash_rc or profile.
So why call it "mail"?
I think you should beat up all of the *nix devs out there!
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@DustinB3403 said in SMTP is Email so what is the mail you get from logging?:
@scottalanmiller said in SMTP is Email so what is the mail you get from logging?:
It's a text file. The mechanism is just a login time script that looks for new text at the end of the file (actually "since last login.") Thats all, just a script in the bash_rc or profile.
So why call it "mail"?
I think you should beat up all of the *nix devs out there!
Because it's not meant to be used that way. It's meant to be delivered via an SMTP server and dropped into that location.
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So the alerts are meant to be delievered via SMTP, therefore they are "email files" without the SMTP portion. Hence they are email.
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It has probably been that way since the 70's
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@DustinB3403 said in SMTP is Email so what is the mail you get from logging?:
So the alerts are meant to be delievered via SMTP, therefore they are "email files" without the SMTP portion. Hence they are email.
There is no such thing. You can't just call all text files "email". If you do, literally everything is email. So the term is now lost. Go pick up your email from the dry cleaners so you can be home in time to eat your email for dinner.
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@scottalanmiller I love eating email for dinner
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@scottalanmiller said in SMTP is Email so what is the mail you get from logging?:
@DustinB3403 said in SMTP is Email so what is the mail you get from logging?:
So the alerts are meant to be delievered via SMTP, therefore they are "email files" without the SMTP portion. Hence they are email.
There is no such thing. You can't just call all text files "email". If you do, literally everything is email. So the term is now lost. Go pick up your email from the dry cleaners so you can be home in time to eat your email for dinner.
hahahah I laughed way to hard when I read that on my phone!
