Backend for sendmail wanted (that won't crash MUSH)

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From: Jeffrey L Bromberger
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 20:30

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I am running a vanilla SysV machine, and I'm looking for a back end for
sendmail.  This should be able to add local mail to mailboxes.

You see, I have this "pseudo-hack" that I'm using now, but there are
problems with the MUA called MUSH.  Whenever I am using mush, and mail
comes in, there's a 50/50 chance I get the following messages:

Unable to lock "/usr/spool/mail/jeffrey": Permission denied
Unable to open /usr/spool/mail/jeffrey: Permission denied
Can't load new mail: "/usr/spool/mail/jeffrey" may be corrupted!

I have no option at this choice but to abort mush and lose the changes
I have made to my mailbox.  This gets very frustrating :-(

The decision I have made is not to bother fixing the hack, but to get
a different program to do the mail slam-dunk.  It only needs to be
called by sendmail.  If it has /bin/mail crude functionality, I can
live with it.  Biff support is not necessary.

My request - any suggestions on the best one to use?  We use mush and
mailx as MUAs and sendmail as the MTA.  I'd prefer something free (and
FTPable), but will listen to all suggestions.

Please email, and I'll summarize in about 2 weeks.  Thanks in advance
for your help.

j
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Jeffrey L. Bromberger ------- System Manager ------- Tramway Unix Systems
jeffrey@squid.tram.com      Anywhere!{van-bc,limbic,icus}!tram!jeffrey

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.mush,comp.mail.sendmail
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!tram!jeffrey
From: jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Subject: Backend for sendmail wanted (that won't crash MUSH)
Organization: Tramway Unix Systems
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 20:30:59 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Sep6.203059.27966@squid.tram.com>
Followup-To: poster
Summary: Need something that won't corrupt the mail file
Keywords: sendmail mush
Sender: jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
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