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From: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail "front end" query
Message-ID: <1829@killer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 17:49:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1829
Posted: Thu Oct 15 17:49:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 17:49:59 EDT
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Keywords: smail mailx Subject etc

lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg):

> I always thought the svbinmail interface was a bit of a crock. Here's
> what I came up with...

I always thought the System V /bin/mail interfact was a bit of a crock.
svbinmail is a nice, if kludgy, way around it.

> [...]
> This has the effect of making mailx the default UA, and installs smail
> in it's proper function as the MTA. Note that on most systems mailx
> uses /bin/rmail for delivery. Make sure your mailx does so also or
> you'll wonder where your mail is going...

On killer (a 3B2, System V r2.0.5) mailx uses /bin/mail for delivery. Because
of this, svbinmail is quite necessary. If yours uses /bin/rmail, then by all
means go right ahead and replace /bin/mail. But be careful; some things may
use /bin/mail that you don't know about, and who knows how the prompt for
Subject: may futz things up? cron, for example, uses /bin/mail, or at
least it does here..
-- 
Bill Wisner, HASA 'A' Division		..ihnp4!killer!billw
"It's the coarse feel of the rope that I don't like."