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From: sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
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Subject: Re: Need a wrapper for SCO rmail
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Date: 22 Sep 90 18:19:39 GMT
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In article <12450@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>> Just found out that the standard rmail included with SCO Xenix can
>> only handle one addressee at a time.  Thus if you have a message 
>> coming in from another site addressed to two or more users, rmail
>> errors.
>
>(and drops the mail on the floor...)
>
>I pointed this out to SCO years ago.  Their response was that it was
>not a bug so they weren't going to fix it.  
>
>Please tell them that it has burned you and you wish they'd fix it.
>It's not like there is a serious problem with fixing it!
>

Fortunately it's not a huge problem to fix. You simply rename their rmail
and create a script something like:

	:
	cat > /tmp/rmail$$
	for i in $*
	do
	rrmail $i < /tmp/rmail$$
	done
	rm /tmp/rmail$$

In cases like this it's sometimes faster to just fix it yourself than trying
to get the vendor to do something. To give them credit SCO did listen to our
complaints and has given us a much nicer mailer under SCO UNIX. Whether or
not we are better off with MMDF is another question.....


-- 
Stuart Lynne	Unifax Communications Inc.
		...!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice)     	sl@wimsey.bc.ca