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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: MH with "/bin/mail" as mts?
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.192603.3233@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 30 Jul 90 19:26:03 GMT
Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
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Has anyone ever tried to modify MH so that it uses /bin/mail as the
mail transport mechanism?  There are systems out here that don't
have sendmail, mmdf, or pop, but that handle mail quite well.

I have ported MH 6.7 to SVR4, and run into a basic design flaw
in the SVR4 mail surrogates.  Basically, any mail that comes
in via SMTP and then has to go back out due to it being non-local,
will have its headers all screwed up.

This flaw can be seen without MH, but MH triggers it every time.

It seems to me that the basic problem with adding /bin/mail as
an MH mts is that MH seems to depend on the mts being able to
get the recipients from the header, and /bin/mail requires that
recipients be found on the command line.

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