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From: jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Problem with mail on 2.0.2
Message-ID: <6415@turnkey.gryphon.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 16:26:11 GMT
References: <11@vidiot.UUCP> <1990Jan10.145604.4306@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM
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Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <1990Jan10.145604.4306@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <11@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>> OK, what is wrong you may ask?  The second through fifth lines are messing the
>> mail reader, ie, it thinks it is from uucp (0000-uucp(0000)) and it loses
>> the subject line etc.
>
>We fixed this about a 8 months ago on our system.  I believe the solution was
>to replace /bin/rmail with a copy (or link if they are on the same file system)
>of /usr/lib/sendmail.
 
This doesn't sound like any solution I have heard of. What I did right from
the beginning (and I have never seen this problem) was to build and install
the 2.5 version of smail ( ISC's provided smail is some back-level thing that
doesn't even work! ). Install it according to the normal instructions for
a system that has sendmail, and everything works just fine. In this case
/bin/rmail is a link to /bin/smail.

Good Luck!


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Jack F. Vogel			jackv@seas.ucla.edu
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