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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Problems with email
Keywords: email, registry
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.160403.3400@alphalpha.com>
Date: 8 Jul 90 16:04:03 GMT
References: <1664@tuvie>
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In article <1664@tuvie> mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
>/bsd4.3/bin/mail will not deliver mail to the recipients. Now the 
>problem seems to be that the mailer cannot acquire the gid of mail, 
Correct, although I'm not sure why it was modified to need the gid.

>but about this I'm not too sure. The mailer does not seem to return 
>an error code (or does /usr/lib/sendmail ignore it ?), whenever 
It doesn't return an error code.  This isn't an Apollo problem but
generic to mail.  There are a number of cases where it totally punts,
it's error handling is grotesque or non-existant.

I've reported the bug to Apollo, but I suspect your best bet is to
find a PD version of mail (I believe there is one on uunet, it also
goes by the name of rmail often) and use that.

						-kee

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