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From: fuat@cunixc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: "Return-Receipt-To:" and Mail/mailx
Keywords: mailcf, sendmail
Message-ID: <1004@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 88 02:12:14 GMT
References: <511@mipseast.mips.COM> <3975@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <22535@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran)
Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities
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In article <22535@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>The use of the ~/.mailcf file is not a function of /usr/ucb/[Mm]ail;
>rather, it's a function of sendmail.  [Mm]ail's (mailx') configuration
>is based entirely in ~/.mailrc.  ~/.mailcf is in the same format
>(including your header example) as /usr/lib/sendmail.cf.

I believe support for ~/.mailcf was taken out of more recent versions
of sendmail.  According to the Version.c file it was put in in version
3.57 and removed in version 4.30 since it was "abused".

						--Fuat


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