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Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> But you'd be surprised at the number of people here who have
> installed many of the standard utilities.

It wouldn't surprise me at all.  In fact I often
encourage users to install such packages from
Slackware.

> My solution for the mail utilities at this point are fetchmail,
> mailx (no MIME), pppd, chat, and msmtp.

fetchmail?  msmtp?  I expected you to suggest a nc script.

> You could use versions of fetchmail and msmtp that 
> are much smaller if you leave out ssl/tls capabilities, 

What's the point?  pmail does an adequate job for nonsecure
POP3 and SMTP connections and it's smaller than the smallest
fetchmail+msmtp.

Cheers,
Steven