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Re: sendmail 8.6.4 and local delivery agent

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From: Stephen R. van den Berg
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 18:15
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In article <dhatz.755813078@news.forth.gr>,
Dhmhtrhs Hatzopoulos <dhatz@nemesis.csi.forth.gr> wrote:
>>Has anyone attempted to use 'procmail' as the local delivery agent for
>>8.6.4 ? I've configured it as suggested in procmail's documentation, but
>>'elm' won't accept the mailbox format in /usr/spool/mail/* (reports that
>>the folder is corrupted).

>I already got a few replies, most of them from fellow netters who want
>to do something similar. I should add that I'd like to use the usual
>mailbox format (not MMDF), so I can't use the local-delivery agent which
>the SCO sendmail invokes, after 'mkdev sendmail-init'.

Maybe you mismatched mailboxes formats somewhere.
Are you sure that elm was not configured for MMDF format mail?
Or, maybe elm was correct, and you enabled procmail MMDF format support?

Other than that, I wouldn't know.  What does a small sample (procmail
generated) mailbox look like?
-- 
Sincerely,                                  berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).

To boldly program, where *no* man has programmed before!
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From: berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
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Subject: Re: sendmail 8.6.4 and local delivery agent
Date: 15 Dec 1993 18:15:53 GMT
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