sending mail to user with vacation forwarding; newer sunos only

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From: Richard Sharman
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 02:56

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In GNU Emacs 19.25.6 of Wed Jun 15 1994 on sharman (sparc-sun-sunos4.1)

When mail is sent to a user whose forwarding includes the vacation
program, mail is returned with the error:

Subject: returned mail for "|/usr/ucb/vacation -j mailtst1"

Mail error was: 554 <"|/usr/ucb/vacation -j mailtst1">... Cannot mail directly to programs
--- returned mail follows ---

We get this error with newer versions of sun os.  It failed on
	SunOS tranter 4.1.3_U1 1 sun4m
but worked on
	SunOS sharman 4.1.3 1 sun4c

We are able to get around it with:
	(setq sendmail-program "mail")
(used in  sendmail-send-it  in sendmail.el) so I presume the problem
arises with some versions of /usr/lib/sendmail. 


Richard.

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