From: kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr) Subject: Re: [Q] Linux/SLS "mail" is too smart for its own good Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 12:27:29 GMT
Andreas Busse (andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de) wrote:
: 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.
I've ported bsd-mail (version 5.5 / 6/1/90) to Linux. It uses /usr/lib/sendmail as MTA.
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