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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /bin/mail on 3B2.
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.212408.26697@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 29 Jun 90 21:24:08 GMT
References: <511@gagme.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <511@gagme.chi.il.us> greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>I am using a 3B2 running System V 3.2, and using smail for E-mail.

>I noticed that /bin/mail doesn't call smail to process Internet
>type addresses, and it doesn't handle them itself.

The smail distribution should have included a tiny program called 
svbinmail that replaces /bin/mail (which you rename to something
else).  It just looks at the command line arguments and execs
either smail or the old /bin/mail depending on whether you are
sending or reading mail.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us