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From: jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (the leather creaks and the god speaks)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Source Code For Berkeley Mail?
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Date: 23 Sep 90 16:36:42 GMT
References: <1990Sep21.171510.3817@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1990Sep21.190625.15912@mp.cs.niu.edu> <4072@rsiatl.UUCP>
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In article <4072@rsiatl.UUCP> jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) writes:
>>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.
>
>I'll give you a straight answer because not only do I realize that
>security by obscurity is no security at all but also because I realize
>that many sysadms are not in the chain of command and end up being pricks
>just to show that  they can. 

Cheers, John.  Thumbs up.

To answer the original question - it is important to know if you can
still run the program sendmail.  As long as you can execute that, then
you are all set.  All that mail does is give you a nice front end.
Compose a text file in appropriate RFC-822 format and send it straight
into sendmail, with the -t option (which will cause sendmail to scan
the file for recipients).

In fact, this message is being posted via a small script I wrote that
adds a few header lines and sends a file to the netnews posting agent.
For some reason, the posting software around MIT can take up to five
minutes to do its work.  I found that rather obstructive.

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