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From: marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Need help with Mail
Keywords: ISC 2.0.2, mail
Message-ID: <213@dumbcat.sf.ca.us>
Date: 29 Sep 90 23:48:47 GMT
References: <10756@hacgate.UUCP>
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Organization: MH Software, Hayward, Ca.
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In article <10756@hacgate.UUCP> terry@tcville.UUCP (Robert Terry) writes:
    Anyone out there can help me? I'm having strange problem with this mail
    problem...

    	"mwms% mail: mailfile does not begin with a 'From' line"

Iff you are using sendmail on both machines compare the mailer entries in
both sendmail.cf files (usually /usr/lib/sendmail.cf).  The mailes entries
start with an upper case M.  They should look something like:

Mlocal, P=/bin/lmail, F=lsDFMhumS, S=10, R=20, A=lmail -s $u
Mprog,	P=/bin/sh,   F=lsDFMe,   S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u
Muux,	P=/bin/smail, F=sDFMhum, S=14, R=24, M=100000,
	A=smail -vH$j $h!$u
Mrelay,	P=/usr/bin/uux, F=CsDFMhum, S=14, R=24, M=100000,
	A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)

The Mlocal mailer is used for local delivery.  My guess is that the Mlocal
entry on the machine that is working is different from the machine that is
not working.  [The difference is probably the addition of a U to to the
flags (F=...) specification on the working machine].

Good luck,

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