Delivermail vs sendmail on 2.9bsd

[H. Morrow Long]

A HELPFUL HINT FROM HELOISE

	In the course of converting our Vax to 4.2BSD (from 4.1BSD) I
	noticed that many local mailers and applications programs
	were formatting mail (massaged or computer generated) and
	attempting to pipe into /etc/delivermail.  Not wanting to
	restore an antique program merely to keep these programs happy
	I noticed that sendmail is roughly downwardly compatible with
	delivermail.  Just: 'ln -s /usr/lib/sendmail /etc/delivermail'.

	Sendmail can be very powerful once you get into the syntax but
	it does use a lot of cpu resources.  Remove the
	/usr/lib/sendmail.fc (frozen configuration) file while
	debugging addresses, mailers and the like but generate a new
	.fc file (sendmail -bz) once you have a stable and workable
	.cf file.

				H. Morrow Long
				W.I.T. (Wizard-In-Training)
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