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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Source Code For Berkeley Mail?
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Date: 24 Sep 90 00:24:17 GMT
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>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.

	This is bogus. Simply talk directly to sendmail, EG:
/usr/lib/sendmail -v user
	type your message, and hit control-D. Wrap it in a shell script
that calls an editor and feed the results to sendmail. If the machine is
networked, he can always talk to the sendmail demons on other machines
manually - or to the local one. That is left as an exercise to the reader.

mjr.