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- From: davidb@zeus.ce.washington.edu (David W. Barts)
- Subject: Re: /usr/mail/glenr.lock not creatable after 10 tries
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.160932.5384@u.washington.edu>
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington
- References: <1992Sep8.150708.1954@tron.bwi.wec.com> <TT.92Sep10141025@tarzan.jyu.fi>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:09:32 GMT
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- In article <TT.92Sep10141025@tarzan.jyu.fi>, tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:
- > I think even HP sendmail can be configured not to use /bin/mail
- > (actually it uses /bin/rmail, btw), if you have something to replace
- > it with. It's defined in the line beginning with Mlocal in
- > sendmail.cf. (Warning: meddling with sendmail.cf without knowing what
- > you are doing can be hazardous to your mail.)
-
- Indeed you can. I've done this on my HP workstation when I put biff
- and comsat on it (comsat expects to be notified by the local mail
- delivery agent).
-
- One sendmail item I haven't looked at is attempting to fix the "From
- daemon" problem that afflicts HP's. Is there an easy way to fix this?
-
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- David Barts N5JRN UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
- davidb@ce.washington.edu Seattle, WA 98195
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