From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 22 13:14:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA17126 for current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 13:14:21 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA17116 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 13:14:02 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA22318; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 22:13:05 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA06391; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 22:13:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA06415; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 20:29:05 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509221829.UAA06415@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: rmail and brain-dead mail systems .. patch enclosed To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 20:29:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <199509212123.OAA00831@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 21, 95 02:23:08 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 787 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > You all do realize that our rmail sources come with sendmail: Yes, of course. > And if you have problems with rmail they should be sent to Eric... The problem is rmail itself, and its idea of insisting on From_. I don't know which ancient environment Eric has been designing this for... i assume he might have had a reason for it, but for all "modern" environments, /bin/rmail can safely be replaced by sendmail. Perhaps configurations where only old UUCP mailers communicate together (without intervening RFC-822 mailers) might be the cause, perhaps there's no From: line then so From_ will be important. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)