From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 21 01:01:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA28874 for current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:01:14 -0700 Received: from relay3.UU.NET (relay3.UU.NET [192.48.96.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA28863 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:00:49 -0700 Received: from uucp6.UU.NET by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP id QQzicu00501; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 04:00:32 -0400 Received: from uanet.UUCP by uucp6.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 04:00:53 -0400 Received: by crocodil.monolit.kiev.ua; Thu, 21 Sep 95 03:13:25 +0300 Received: from dog.farm.org (farm-cs.farm.org [193.124.48.230]) by clipper.cs.kiev.ua (8.6.4) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 03:06:34 +0300 Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (MK54/dk1) id DAA04844; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 03:07:25 +0300 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 03:07:25 +0300 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199509210007.DAA04844@dog.farm.org> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina), freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rmail and brain-dead mail systems .. patch enclosed Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.current Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article you wrote: > Ahh, I looked more carefully at the source code. You're absolutely right. > The way I read it from you was going the "other" way, that mail was coming > in via a remote SMTP site and you wanted the delivery agent to mung the > headers. I was completely full of shit, sorry...I'm used to the bad old > days when /bin/mail and /bin/rmail were the same piece of code. me too... I remember Xenix. I also think sendmail can do the rmail's job, but possibly worser. > What does make me curious is how does rmail enter into the picture at all? > Who is invoking it? uuxqt (after receiving mail by uucp, sent by `uux - system!rmail'). btw, why our rmail ignores the `UU_MACHINE' envariable is should get from uucp to stuff into the From_ line? why it invokes sendmail with `-oee' option (Berknet-style error handling)? -- UNIX: Any of a collection of similar operating systems that you can run the programming language 'perl' on. -- wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)