Re: Running Sendmail on System V Rel 4 ??

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From: Larry Snyder
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 16:04

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bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:

>>5.  Any general hints/comments on using sendmail on SVR4 are appreciated.

>How about some bugs?

>- frozen configuration files don't work. You get a core dump.
>- sendmail is unable to deliver local mail with the AT&T /bin/mail.
>- /usr/ucblib/binmail gets the permissions wrong on the local mailboxes.
>- sendmail's mailq really should be /var/spool/mqueue.

how about replacing sendmail with smail3?  I haven't used sendmail
in maybe 3 years -- every new machine and new OS since automatically
gets smail3 installed -- 

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Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.rn.com
Gator Communications                              uucp: ..!uunet!gator!larry

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Subject: Re: Running Sendmail on System V Rel 4 ??
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