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From: riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle )
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mailx <-> smail incompatibilities
Message-ID: <1041@woton.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 17:32:46 GMT
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Organization: Shriners Burns Institute, Galveston
Lines: 13
Keywords: smail 2.5, SVR2.1 mailx 2.14, alias conflict, return addresses
Summary: Some solutions
Male-XYY: "Bob"


Thanks to the several people who suggested the "set sendmail=/bin/mail"
fix (or "set sendmail=/bin/smail", which some preferred).  Mailx's
behavior in this instance is not that illogical -- if only it were
properly documented in the man page! 

As for my second problem (mailx getting confused by "(John Doe)"
usernames in "From:" lines), I kluged a workaround by removing the code
to generate said usernames from our local version of smail.  The change
is pretty simple, but if anyone wants it I'd be happy to share. 

-- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
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