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From: kdb@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Kevin D. Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail "front end" query
Message-ID: <1198@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 11:24:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 11:24:38 1987
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Reply-To: kdb@ncsuvx.UUCP (Kevin D. Bond)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center, Raleigh, NC
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Keywords: smail mailx Subject etc

I replied by mail to this request, but have seen enough response that I
thought I might help everyone out here...

First, since I am a rather paranoid sort, and have been bitten before
I NEVER substitute a smart mailer for /bin/mail, lots more things use
/bin/mail than you might think, and they assume it is dumb.

Second, so far you had to invoke mailx by saying mailx anyway, so why
change?  As for the problem of what mail agent mailx uses to deliver,
who really cares what it uses by default, unless you try to make it into
/bin/mail (which I obvious don't think you should my opinion only).  You can
change the delivery agent mailx uses by putting a line:

set sendmail=smail

in your $HOME/.mailrc, or in the global mailx setup file
/usr/lib/mailx/mailrc, I think, can't remeber off the toip of my head.

If you make this change, then everything works as before, program that
expect /bin/mail to be dumb get what they expect, and users that want the
extra features of a smart front end and smail can get them by making a
simple change to their .mailrc file, of is the SA is inclined, he/she can
make that the default.
--
Kevin D. Bond
kdb@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu   kdb@cscosl.ncsu.edu   kdb%katylied@mcnc.org