Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nwnexus!happym!kent
From: kent@happym.wa.com (Kent Forschmiedt)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: correction to mail pipe correction (was Re: SysV patches)
Keywords: mail pipe for automatic bug traces
Message-ID: <789@happym.wa.com>
Date: 14 Jun 89 19:15:49 GMT
References: <17920@bigtex.cactus.org> <32721@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <32741@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: kent@happym.wa.com (0000-Kent Forschmiedt)
Organization: Happy Man Corp.
Lines: 19

In article <32741@bu-cs.BU.EDU> composer@bu-cs.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem) writes:
> [ where to pipe mail: .../sendmail?  .../mail? ]
>Oops.  Sorry, my mistake.  I forgot.  I had fixed this a while back on
>a system here.  It's not /bin/mail.  It would be /usr/ucb/mail (at least
>on 4.2BSD, as far as I know), since the data that is piped to the mail
>program has some tilde-style commands (i.e. ~s subject..) in it.
>Basically, it should be whatever mail program accepts the tilde-commands
>on your system.

Why use ~s at all?  Why use a UMA for this?  The program should generate 
a reasonably RFC-822 conformant message and feed it to /bin/rmail like 
any other unassuming, well behaved program.  Rmail is the most universal 
mail delivery agent.  Whether it is a link to mail or sendmail or smail 
or delivermail or whatever, rmail is present on every machine that 
supports uucp mail, which is probably the largest subset of the machines 
that have a use for bash. 

-- 
 kent@happym.wa.com, tikal!camco!happym!kent, Happy Man Corp 206-282-9598