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From: bs@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Bernard Steiner)
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Subject: Re: HELP!  (sorry, I'm really stuck!)
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Date: 8 May 91 10:58:55 GMT
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In article <4131@anasaz.UUCP>, rusty@anasaz.UUCP (Rusty Carruth) writes:
. However, when I attempt to run
. it on "clyde", local mail gets into a forever loop, with mail calling sendmail
. calling mail calling ......

Rusty, you just answered your own question...

. Mlocal, P=/bin/lmail, F=lsDFMhumS, S=10, R=20, A=lmail -s $u

. And, now, the "looping" sendmail.cf:
. # Nota Bene: what mailer flags you use depends upon what version of /bin/mail
. # you have:

Very important, that...

. # USG UNIX (System III, System V, Xenix 3.0 or later)
. Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=SlsDFMPpmx, S=10, R=20, A=mail $u

Note this definition is quite different from the one above...

. # Also, if you are using System V, you should get the Berkeley version of
. # /bin/mail as soon as you can and junk the one you've got: it doesn't
. # believe in sendmail, so the wrong thing will happen when someone types
. # mail user@host (i.e. it will attempt local delivery, rather than call
. # sendmail)

Hear, hear !

Anyway, what I was going to say - try the version with "lmail".
If you haven't got /bin/lmail, use /bin/mail instead and A=lmail ...

If that doesn't work, go figure out how to use a mail program that *doesn*t
connect to sendmail, and if all else fails, RTFM or indeed "get the Berkeley
version of /bin/mail"

Cheers, and goog luck

-Bernard

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