From: andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de (Andreas Busse) Subject: Re: [Q] Linux/SLS "mail" is too smart for its own good Date: 14 Apr 1993 10:19:10 GMT
In article <1993Mar28.004916.19259@jmd386.lonestar.org>, jdoss@jmd386.lonestar.org (Joe M. Doss) writes:
|> In article <1993Mar24.190859.16371@eecs.nwu.edu> hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
|> >I have a question about the "mail" program for Linux, specifically
|> >from the SLS release, which I believe is the same as in mailpak. The
|> >problem is that it bypasses the mail transport agent (smail) when it
|> >gets an address it "recognizes" (local or UUCP-style, I believe).
|> >Unfortunately that is a Bad Thing[TM] at least on my system. "elm"
|> >behaves properly but some users on this machine are used to the BSD
|> >Mail interface and don't want to switch.
|> >
|> >So: is there either a way to force "mail" to send ALL its mail to the
|> >mail transport agent, or is there a different version of mail
|> >somewhere that does that? (If there is but is not for Linux I'll try
|> >to port it -- that's no problem)
I had the same problem. My solution was to install the sendmail+ida package.
Now I have simple /bin/mail and /bin/rmail as transport agents, elm as a
frontend and sendmail as the "router". There were only few things to change
in the sources. I don't remeber exactly, but the most important thing was to
change the header format of elm. The "from" line must be the first one and
the "subject" line the last.
Andy