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From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Beginner's ELM question
Keywords: elm xenix anonymous
Message-ID: <695@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 23 Aug 89 07:00:10 GMT
References: <2509@lgnp1.LS.COM> <1989Aug20.122618.29215@DSI.COM>
Reply-To: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
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In article <1989Aug20.122618.29215@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>rbarrell@lgnp1.LS.COM (Robert Barrell) writes:
>>Thus, a message from "abc" to "xyz" will get to "xyz",
>>but when "xyz" tries to reply, ELM sends the reply out to "anonymous".
>
>Stock SCO Xenix's mail transport agent is /usr/lib/mail/execmail.
>What you need to do is tell Elm that the mailer is /usr/lib/mail/execmail,
>not /bin/rmail or /usr/bin/rmail.  This can be done in configure.

Might I suggest that this is putting the cart before the horse?  I would
say that the first thing to do is install smail2.5.  After all, you need
to get your foundations solid before building on top of them.

>Smail will solve both problems, the anon. problem and the
>multiple addresses problem.

Exactly.

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Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
"I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom