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From: tot@clinet.FI (Teemu Torma)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mailx <-> smail incompatibilities
Keywords: smail 2.5, SVR3, mailx 3.0
Message-ID: <621@clinet.FI>
Date: 15 Apr 88 05:26:58 GMT
References: <1040@woton.UUCP> <1510@bigtex.uucp>
Reply-To: tot@clinet.FI (Teemu Torma)
Organization: City Lines Oy, Helsinki, Finland
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In article <1510@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>BTW: If you try to use smail with SysVr3 mailx, it won't work, because the
>SysVr3 mailx uses the new -s option to /bin/mail, which smail doesn't know
>about.  I have a patch to svbinmail from smail 2.5 that correctly emulates
>the -s option of /bin/mail, and passed the rest of the non-sending flags
>to /bin/lmail (such as -F): in short, makes smail SysVr3 compatible.

Add `set noaddsopt' to mailx startup file for SVR3 mailx (mailx 3.0).
After that it does not use -s option to /bin/mail (or whatever is set by
`set sendmail=blaah').
-- 
Teemu Torma
City Lines Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Internet: tot@clinet.fi
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