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From: edw@wells.UUCP (Ed Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Trouble with Xenix rmail.
Summary: Xenix rmail
Message-ID: <381@wells.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 90 09:08:22 GMT
References: <1990Jun3.020023.10174@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Organization: Wells Computer Systems Corp., Levittown, Pa. 19058
Lines: 34

In article <1990Jun3.020023.10174@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>, det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
In article <422@oha.UUCP> tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
> My mail feed from alberta will send a message to two recepients at the same
> address with a uux request to "rmail user1 user2".  The sender receives the
> following back from our machine:
> 
> 	remote execution	[uucp job albertaAAaa3 (5/26-12:59:50)]
> 		rmail tony al
> 	exited with status 1
> 
> 		===== stderr was =====
> 	Usage: rmail username
> 
> Does anyone know if the Xenix rmail just incapable of this, or am I doing
> something wrong?  System is Xenix 2.3.1.

  I think a few of their 'rmail' programs needed for some reason:

	rmail -ausername username

Try that.  It's been a while since I played with the Xenix rmail, but
I think the name after the -a was the name to send it to and the username
after that was the Documented name in the piece of mail.  If I remember
correctly, 'rmail -aedw Edward' allowed the mail to be send to 'edw'
while the "From " line contained the name from 'Edward'.  You'll have
to verify this by playing with it.  I don't have the old 'rmail' program
on my system anymore.  I use smail now and some other stuff I wrote
myself.

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