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From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Problems with Elm 2.1 on V/386
Message-ID: <170@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 88 15:36:27 GMT
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
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    I just converted my system from Microport Sys V/AT to V/386. I had
been using Elm2.1 on V/AT with no problems. Apparently the rmail
program on SVR3 is sllightly different than the SVR2 version was. I
had a lot of trouble with mail/mailx kicking out "illegal option --s"
after installing Smail2.5. Luckily someone sent me a patched svbinmail.c
the take care of the -s problem. Now mail/mailx works with Smail2.5 as
does incoming stuff. Elm, however still fails. I can read mail ok but
when I go to send something, anything, I get:

/bin/rmail: illegal option --s
valid flags are cdvArRlLH:h:p:u:q:a:n:m:f:F

    I know there are lots of people running SVR3 with Smail and Elm so
there must be someway to get around the problem. For the time being,
I'm back to using mailx (yuucck) for outgoing mail. If anyone has any
ideas, I would be happy to hear from them. Thanks.


					John


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1869 Valley Rd.                  |           ARPA: john@wa3wbu.uu.net 
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