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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Path: sparky!uunet!sandr!dlucy
- From: dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy)
- Subject: Re: SCO Unix v3.2.2 and Elm v2.3 woes (new question)
- Organization: S&R Software, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 17:57:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep02.175723.15171@sandr.COM>
- Summary: Why can't I just use execmail?
- References: <1992Aug29.194524.5658@generic.uucp> <1992Aug30.143831.19268@DSI.COM> <1992Aug31.134713.14922@sco.COM>
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- In article <1992Aug31.134713.14922@sco.COM> larryp@sco.COM (Larry Philps)
- writes:
-
- > In <1992Aug30.143831.19268@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
-
- > > marekp@generic.uucp (Marek Pawlowski) writes:
-
- > > > if any user other than root tries to send mail (by replying, or
- > > > composing from scratch) the following error message intrudes
- > > >
- > > > submit: [ Permission denied ] Unable to change directory.
- > > > submit: message submission aborted
-
- > > This is the well known problem where SCO distributed the directories
- > > with the wrong permissions. Run the MMDF script checkup and follow its
- > > instructions to change some of the directory permissions. Then Elm will
- > > work much better.
- >
- > Just to clarify, the name of the program to run is /usr/mmdf/bin/checkup.
- > Fix the things it complains about, and your problem will disappear.
-
- Um, I may be really stupid, but I changed the mail program in the ELM
- 2.3 PL11 Configure script to "/usr/lib/mail/execmail" and everything
- (at least that I've noticed) works fine.
-
- Am I doing something REALLY dumb or did I stumble on a working
- solution that has no adverse side effects?
- --
- [ W. Douglas Lucy, VP Technical Services, S and R Software, Inc. ]
- [ dlucy@sandr.COM ]
-