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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Source Code For Berkeley Mail?
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.190625.15912@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <1990Sep21.171510.3817@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 19:06:25 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.171510.3817@portia.Stanford.EDU> usa@portia.Stanford.EDU (Nan Wu) writes:
>I am posting this for a friend who cannot send mails because the system
>manager doesn't want people to read messages and thus has disabled the
>Berkeley "mail" program.  However, the sendmail daemon is still running.
>His question is:  can he get the source code for the "mail" program so
>that he can at least send out messages through sendmail daemon?  The
>machine he is on is a Dec-station 3100 running Ultrix.  He'll appreciate
>any pointers.  Please e-mail to this account.  Thanks!

	1.  Are you asking us to tell you how to bypass security and
	    do an and run around the system manager?  No way.  Asking
	    is ethically questionable.

	2.  It the manager wants to restrict users, he has two choices:

	    (a) Pull the plug.
	    (b) Start using a different operating system.  Unix wasn't
		designed for these restrictions.  For example if the
		Berkeley "mail" program you are referring to is
		/usr/ucb/Mail, all it does is provide a tolerably friendly
		front end to do things you could perfectly well do with
		a text editor.
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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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