Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!trac2000!das From: das@trac2000.ueci.com (David Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Elm under SCO UNIX 3.2 Message-ID: <1042@trac2000.ueci.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 21:04:11 GMT References: <1991Jun27.102645.21572@lut.fi> Organization: UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA Lines: 31 In article <1991Jun27.102645.21572@lut.fi>, larry@lut.fi (Lauri Toropainen) writes: -> I have just installed elm to our SCO Unix 3.2. After a long (and -> desperate) configuration of sendmail, everything finally seems to work -> OK. There's just this one exception: -> Well, you're just the person I need to talk to. I'd really like to hear what you did to dump MMDF and start using sendmail. Anyway... -> SCO local mailer seems to add a delimeter string of 4 CTRL-A's before -> and after each message it delivers to the incoming mailbox files. For -> instance, /usr/spool/mail/larry looks like -> -> ^A^A^A^A -> From ... ->
-> -> ^A^A^A^A -> Yup, even though you tell ELM to use /usr/lib/sendmail instead of /usr/mmdf/bin/submit to send mail, you must still answer YES to the question about your MTA using MMDF. Strange, I know :-) Please let me know how you got sendmail to work on your machine. I basically have two types of mail comming from my SCO machine, local mail and everything else. Thanks. DAS -- David A. Snyder @ UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA UUCP: ..!uunet!trac2000!das INTERNET: das@trac2000.ueci.com