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Hi,

Well: I took the easy route and kept /usr/bin/mail. Instead I've just
modified the majordomo username in /etc/passwd to be "majordom" and thus
avoid the /bin/mail message about the username being longer than 8 chars.

Thanks to Andre Springer <Andre.Springer@netmanagement.net> for pointing
me to the "deliver" Program which can be used as a drop in replacement
for /bin/mail. Fortunately I found an easier solution as the "deliver"
sources I found on the net, had no Ultrix support.

// Tom

Here's my original posting:

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Thomas Leitner wrote:

> I'm currently setting up a MajorDomo Mailing List on our Ultrix 4.4 Mail
> Server and I've tracked down a weird mail delivery problem to
> /usr/bin/mail. The problem is that the list-owner is not getting any
> e-mail from the list, even though sendmail 8.9.2 reports that the e-mail
> has successfully been sent.
> 
> The command invoked by sendmail to send the local mail is:
> 
> # /usr/bin/mail -r owner@opera.tu-graz.ac.at -d tom
> 
> When this is started as root, mail is delivered correctly.
> 
> However, when this is started as user "majordomo", I get:
> 
> mail: unexpected username length, greater than 8 characters
> 
> This is the reason for the majordomo list mail delivery to fail.
> 
> So my question: Is there a /usr/bin/mail drop in replacement for the stock
> Ultrix 4.4 /usr/bin/mail command? I know of programs like "procmail" etc.
> but this is an overkill for me by far as everything else works flawlessly.
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