/bin/mail on 3B2.

Leslie Mikesell les at chinet.chi.il.us
Sat Jun 30 07:24:08 AEST 1990


In article <511 at gagme.chi.il.us> greg at gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>I am using a 3B2 running System V 3.2, and using smail for E-mail.

>I noticed that /bin/mail doesn't call smail to process Internet
>type addresses, and it doesn't handle them itself.

The smail distribution should have included a tiny program called 
svbinmail that replaces /bin/mail (which you rename to something
else).  It just looks at the command line arguments and execs
either smail or the old /bin/mail depending on whether you are
sending or reading mail.

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us



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