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- From: weinhous@castor.hahnemann.edu (Martin S. Weinhous Ph.D.)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: A mailx query
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 15:58:44 -0500
- Organization: Hahnemann University
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- I am running a reasonably "stock" A/UX 3.0 (under ksh) and would like
- to use some mail convenience features that I have been unable to
- locate under A/UX.
-
- (0) Is mailx the "best" supplied interface to sendmail? If not, what
- might do better?
-
- (1) Under mailx, can one implement the automatic use of .signature
- and .rsignature? If so, how? (I'm able to use the ~a and ~A
- mechanism, but would like the added convenience of the auto-
- matic . files.)
-
- (2) Under mailx, can one change the first-character-of-each-interpolated-
- line to something other than [tab] (when using ~m in input mode)?
- If so, how?
-
- (3) Under mailx, can one pass a "-v" to sendmail so that you can see
- your messages' outgoing progress? If so, how? (I have tried to get
- this to work by editing /usr/lib/mailx/mail.rc to read
-
- set sendmail=/usr/lib/sendmail -v
-
- both with and without various types of quotes 'round the full
- path name of the command. I have also tried the same sort of "set"
- within my .mailrc. At best, the -v is ignored. At worst, I get
- an error message when sending mail...
-
- /usr/lib/sendmail -v: No such file or directory
-
- This error occurs when the full path and -v are enclosed in "".
- Lastly, if I directly invoke sendmail to send a message, e.g.
-
- /usr/lib/sendmail -v user@address
-
- the #$%##@ thing works! Ok, so the LIMITATIONS part of the mailx
- man page does say that some argument are not always allowed -
- but this one should work!)
-
- My present setup includes the following from the ksh...
- alpha:> set
- ENV=/users/weinhous/.kshrc
- HOME=/users/weinhous
- HOSTNAME=alpha
- MAIL=/usr/mail/weinhous
- MAILCHECK=60
- MAILPATH=/usr/mail/weinhous
- SHELL=/bin/ksh
-
- From within mailx, the set command yields...
- ? set
- DEAD="/users/weinhous/dead.letter"
- EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi"
- MAILRC="/users/weinhous/.mailrc"
- MBOX="/users/weinhous/mbox"
- PAGER="/usr/local/bin/less"
- append
- askcc
- asksub
- crt="24"
- dot
- header
- hold
- page
- save
- sendmail="/usr/lib/sendmail"
- sendwait
-
-
- Any comments and suggestions are most welcome. Thanks in advance.
-
- --
-
- Martin S. Weinhous, Ph.D. weinhous@radonc.hahnemann.edu
- Radiation Oncology, MS-102
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