MaddieM42d ago

Back on my bullshit with OpenBSD, after a Buckminster Fuller-esque nap. I'll probably need to figure out how to SSH into this QEMU VM, because for whatever reason, the framebuffer is hurting my eyes. Maybe I'm getting old! Using my own terminal would be greatly preferred.

But I'm already in love with the mail system in a way I've never felt before. On Linux, email always felt arcane, opaque, and to be avoided - I hosted my own a long time ago in the Roaming Initiative days, and hated it badly. And of course, we've all seen `sudo` threaten "I'm emailing the administrator about this!" with no clue where THAT email went to.

On OpenBSD, mail is one of the first things used to introduce the system, and it's simple and clean and straightforward, and it's treated as "just a basic thing all users deserve to have working out of the box."

#openbsd79 #openbsd

Show threadMaddieM42d ago

To be fair, I wouldn't be totally shocked to find out that both platforms had similar mail systems under the hood, and it's just that only one of them took the time to demystify system mail up-front.

I did check my host, CachyOS, to see what was in /var/mail, and the answer out of the box is... nothing! The user doesn't get a mail file in a default setup.

Show threadSaupreiss #Präparat500 👅🥚🥚

@MaddieM4

Indeed, it’s possible to run the OpenBSD Mail System on Linux.
But it’s its own.

Jun 7 at 7:35amWeb