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In article <1990Sep22.231012.25710@news.clarkson.edu> ahd@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>For those who live to beat the Sysadmin, however, try:
>
>	ln -s /usr/lib/sendmail mail
>	./mail
>
  Please don't try this, folks.  It won't work, and will only frustrate you
and you system administrator.

  For those who are still confused, 'mail' (whether /usr/ucb/Mail or
/bin/mail) is a user mail agent.  'sendmail' is a mail transfer agent.  What
'Mail' does is add necessary headers, then invoke 'sendmail' to transfer the
mail.  There is nothing that 'Mail' does which cannot be done with a simple
text editor, perhaps followed by file indirection to get the mail to 'sendmail'.

  The originator of this news series would be better advised to learn to
do this with an editor, and forget about sources.  Why go to a lot of trouble
compiling sources, leave information around on your directory that a nasty
sysadmin can use to blame you for circumventing his rules, etc, when 'vi'
can do the job.  Moreover, if the sysadmin really knows his job, he has
also disabled some 'suid' programs which you cannot do without, and which
having access to public sources won't help unless you can become root.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940