Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ittvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!pesnta!qumix!ittvax!long From: long@ittvax.UUCP (H. Morrow Long) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Delivermail vs sendmail on 2.9bsd Message-ID: <1539@ittvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 11:59:39 EST Article-I.D.: ittvax.1539 Posted: Tue Nov 27 11:59:39 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 02:27:53 EST References: <55600001@extel.UUCP> Organization: ITT-ATC, Stratford Ct. Lines: 21 A HELPFUL HINT FROM HELOISE In the course of converting our Vax to 4.2BSD (from 4.1BSD) I noticed that many local mailers and applications programs were formatting mail (massaged or computer generated) and attempting to pipe into /etc/delivermail. Not wanting to restore an antique program merely to keep these programs happy I noticed that sendmail is roughly downwardly compatible with delivermail. Just: 'ln -s /usr/lib/sendmail /etc/delivermail'. Sendmail can be very powerful once you get into the syntax but it does use a lot of cpu resources. Remove the /usr/lib/sendmail.fc (frozen configuration) file while debugging addresses, mailers and the like but generate a new .fc file (sendmail -bz) once you have a stable and workable .cf file. H. Morrow Long W.I.T. (Wizard-In-Training) ucbvax!decvax!ittvax!long yale!ittvax!long