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From: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail "front end" query
Message-ID: <1854@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 11:49:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1854
Posted: Sun Oct 18 11:49:59 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Oct-87 00:05:24 EDT
References: <838@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM> <127@ncc.UUCP> <1829@killer.UUCP> <128@ncc.UUCP>
Reply-To: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Organization: HASA
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Keywords: smail mailx Subject etc

In article <128@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) 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.

We want smail to handle delivery of EVERYTHING. With svbinmail installed
as /bin/mail, this happens: even those people (shudder) who insist on using
/bin/mail to send mail can still reap the benefits of smail. /bin/mail now
resides in /bin/lmail, but this is completely transparent to the user; he
need only type mail like he always did.

Yes, we could simply set the DA in mailx's global rc file, but then vanilla
mail would choke on domain addresses.

The person I was responding to said he had replaced /bin/mail with /bin/mailx
or some such; I don't remember which. My point with cron was that is the
program in /bin/maiil starts prompting for a Subject, you never know in what
wierd ways things might begin to act differently. Best not to tempt the fates,
I say.
-- 
Bill Wisner, HASA 'A' Division		..ihnp4!killer!billw
"It's the coarse feel of the rope that I don't like."