Jeroen Scheerder wrote: > > At 14:20 24/2/94 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > [...] > > >> there are shell scripts in Cnews and INN that pass the message to > >> ucbMail, where one can do ~ escapes. > > > >Would simply replacing with /bin/mail fix this? > > Yes. But binmail doesn't handle aliases since it completely bypasses > sendmail (or so I've heard) and doesn't have the '-s' switch, which is > relied on (and useful) in news reportings. eh? why do you think /bin/mail doesn't have aliases ( at least SunOS 4 it does) now on BSD/386 for example /usr/bin/mail is the ucb one - which is probably where the hole comes from ? about the '-s' flag your right but just prepending an 'echo Subject: xxx' should do the trick ( c-news doesn't use '-s' anyhow ) Rafi - TAVOR-rafi (304)>/bin/mail -v usenet usenet... aliased to rafi Subject: test 123