mailx <-> smail incompatibilities

Teemu Torma tot at clinet.FI
Fri Apr 15 15:26:58 AEST 1988


In article <1510 at bigtex.uucp> james at 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 at clinet.fi
UUCP: mcvax!santra!clinet!tot



More information about the Comp.unix.questions mailing list