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From: shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Getting headers right on Xenix 2.3.2
Keywords: Xenix, headers, smail
Message-ID: <38@marilyn.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 90 15:42:31 GMT
References: <4179@thebes.Thalatta.COM> <1990May20.021304.2658@DSI.COM>
Reply-To: shawn@marilyn.marilyn.mn.org (Shawn P. Stanley)
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In article <1990May20.021304.2658@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>>I have a problem with elm on Xenix running smail.  Any mail going to a local
>>user runs through the stock Xenix mail program after smail gets done with it.
>The problem here is that your smail is not set up correctly.  Smail
>on Xenix cannot use mail for local delivery, but must either use
>its own local mail, or /usr/lib/mail/execmail for local delivery.

The local mailer is CAUSING the problems.  Also, isn't execmail packaged
with sendmail?

>optionally
>totally scrap the /usr/lib/mail/execmail, but then you must replace
>/bin/mail with the svbinmail or equivalent that comes with smail.

The svbinmail utility simply calls the local mailer and does no message
processing itself, so that isn't quite a solution.  The answer is to
create an lmail replacement which will massage the header lines so Elm
can accept them.  (I've done this myself; trust me.)  If this is done,
then svbinmail will work but it will be an unnecessary 'middleman' and
can be skipped in favor of going directly to the replacement lmail.
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