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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail "front end" query
Message-ID: <128@ncc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 20:04:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncc.128
Posted: Fri Oct 16 20:04:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 08:29:56 EDT
References: <838@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM> <127@ncc.UUCP> <1829@killer.UUCP>
Organization: Nexus Computing Corp.
Lines: 15
Keywords: smail mailx Subject etc
Summary: You can *probably* specify the mailx delivery agent

In article <1829@killer.UUCP>, billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
> 
> 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..

On most System V boxes I've worked with, mailx has a global startup
file (/usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc). Try adding the following line to it:

set sendmail=/bin/rmail

I have had NO problems with cron (or anything else) using this setup.