Xref: utzoo comp.mail.headers:405 comp.mail.misc:1270 comp.mail.sendmail:114 comp.mail.uucp:1970 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: "Return-Receipt-To:" and Mail/mailx Message-ID: <22535@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 26 Sep 88 17:22:02 GMT References: <511@mipseast.mips.COM> <3975@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 15 In-reply-to: ehrlich@blitz's message of 26 Sep 88 13:55:19 GMT ehrlich@blitz writes: For anybody who uses /use/ucb/mail (I am not sure about SV) one can create a file named .mailcf in one's home directory... ... This bit of magic was shown to me by one of the other systems programmers here. I have not delved into the source for /usr/ucb/mail to figure out what else can go in to this file or what other magic can be done. 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. --Karl