SUMMARY: /bin/mail

From: Tim Bradshaw (tfb@ed.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 17 1995 - 13:10:41 CDT


The problem was that under Solaris 2.x /bin/mail fails to quote
`From ', and since sendmail uses it to write local mail this can cause
trouble with mailers which don't understand content-length, and is in
general a bad thing.

There were two solutions: replace /bin/mail, and make sendmail do the
quoting.

Rich Schultz <rich@ccrwest.org> said:

Get mail.local from ftp.cert.org and use that instead of /bin/mail for local
delivery.

 Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child} <Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au>,
 Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au> told me to use the `E' flag in the
 mailer definition in sendmail.cf:

 Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=flsSDFMmnPE, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u

for instance. Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com> pointed out that
this is in the Solaris FAQ...

Thanks.

--tim



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