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From: jimr@extro.ucc.su.oz (Jim Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Problems with mail: pager, aliases
Keywords: BSD mail pager aliases SR10.1
Message-ID: <865@extro.ucc.su.oz>
Date: 27 Nov 89 09:26:32 GMT
Organization: Uni Computing Service, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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We are having two annoying problems with BSD mail at SR10.1.

(A)  The PAGER option of /bsd4.3/usr/ucb/mail does not work.  If within mail
one says

	& set crt=6
	& set PAGER=/bin/cat

then tries to read a mail item of more than 6 lines, one gets the error
messages

	csh: Permission denied
	(stream manager/IOS) error: operation attempted on unopened stream

(the second message appears only if APOLLO_STATUS is set in the environment).
My login shell *is* csh.  However, the "csh: Permission denied" message is
the same even if I run mail from sh, or if I redefine the environment variable
SHELL to be /bin/sh.

Of course, I would really like to use crpad or something better rather than
cat, but it doesn't seem to make any difference what PAGER program one asks
for.

(This was APRed on 22 August as 23FBB4A4, but the Sydney office seems to have
lost it; I have resubmitted it but maybe the net will provide a quick answer.)

(B)  How do you get sendmail to accept two or more usernames as the value of
an alias?  I tried putting the line

postmaster: root, jimr

in the aliases file, then running newaliases.  If I then send mail to
postmaster, using /usr/ucb/mail with "set verbose" on, I see the following:

postmaster... aliased to  root, jimr
root... Connecting to .local...
root... Sent

and that's all: it know about the dual alias, but doesn't send to jimr.  What's
more, it doesn't simply send to the FIRST username: if the alias is

postmaster: jimr, root

it STILL sends to root but not jimr!

Thanks in advance for any help on these problems.

(Thanks also to all who replied to my request for a program to run the DM
editor from a process.  I will post a summary shortly.)

--
Jim Richardson
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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