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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: att mailx under osx4.4
Message-ID: <58544@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 10 Feb 89 00:02:34 GMT
References: <8902091737.AA00180@era.ucar.edu.UCAR.EDU>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <8902091737.AA00180@era.ucar.edu.UCAR.EDU> era@NIWOT.UCAR.EDU writes:
>I took the advice of the mailx man page and did the following:
>
>o In /usr/.attlib/mailx/mailx.rc, I put in the line
>  "set sendmail=/usr/.ucblib/sendmail" so mailx would use sendmail.
>o In /usr/.attlib, I created a symbolic link
>  sendmail.cf -> /usr/.ucblib/sendmail.cf.

Aaarrrrgggghh. This doesn't work; never has. I've seen a lot of sites do this,
and always wondered why. It never occurred to me that some idiot put it in the
man page.

The correct technique is in the OSx System Administrator's Guide, to whit:

- In /usr/.attlib/mailx/mailx.rc, put the line:

	set sendmail=/usr/lib/sendmail

- Create a shell script in /usr/.attlib/sendmail, that contains the following:

	exec /bin/ucb /usr/lib/sendmail $@

OSx 4.4 was *supposed* to ship this way; I checked the release and mailx.rc
is correct, but /usr/.attlib/sendmail is missing. I will make sure this is set
up correctly in the OSx 5.0 release. (I'll also fix that broken man page.)

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