Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ucsd!rutgers!att!mtune!codas!flnexus!sdgsun!paul From: paul@sdgsunsdgsun.com (Paul Emerson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Mail on the RT Message-ID: <102@sdgsunsdgsun.com> Date: 15 Jul 88 15:31:30 GMT References: <12081@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Software Design Group, Inc., Maitland, FL Lines: 18 in article <12081@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, matt@cosmic (Matt Austern) says: > Summary: Can I fake sendmail on an RT running AIX 2.1.2? > > > AIX 2.1.2 has no sendmail command; instead, it has mail (which can be used > *only* to send a message to a user on the local machine), and netmail (which can > be used *only* to send a message to a user on a remote machine, and which Wrong. I get mail from our RT all the time; no problem. Sendmail is a BSD thing, AIX is based on Sys V with BSD extensions. Check your L.sys (is uucp setup correctly?). Of course AIX 2.1.2 will only allow a tty port to be either a dialin or dialout, (later versions of AIX does allow bi-directional ports). Paul Emerson -- Paul J. Emerson Software Design Group, Inc. Manager, Software Development 800 Trafalgar Ct. Suite 340 UUCP:ucf-cs!sdgsun!paul Maitland, FL 32751 CIS: 72355,171 (407) 660-0006