Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!ogccse!blake!lgy From: lgy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: Using sendmail for local mail? Message-ID: <3767@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 24 Sep 89 21:38:37 GMT References: <3750@blake.acs.washington.edu> <28109@igate.mips.COM> Reply-To: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) Distribution: na Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 29 In article <28109@igate.mips.COM> wje@igate (William J. Earl) writes: -In article <3750@blake.acs.washington.edu>, lgy@blake (Laurence Yaffe) writes: -> -> Has anyone figured out how to use sendmail instead of /bin/mail for -> delivering local mail (send using mailx). [...] -> - The easy way to get the same effect is to create the empty -configuration file /usr/lib/sendmail.ok, and not set the sendmail variable -in mailx. mailx will then deliver mail via /bin/mail, which will in turn -hand it off to sendmail. After sendmail processing, sendmail will in turn -hand the mail back to /bin/mail for actual insertion in a mailbox. -(Except for the configuration file, this is identical to how mail is -usually handled on 4.3 BSD. The configuration file is used so that the -default behavior is compatible with System V; /usr/lib/sendmail.ok is -not created by the default installation.) This feature is described in -man page mail(1-SysV). This does not appear to work as you describe on my M/2000 (running 4.0). I created /usr/lib/sendmail.ok long ago. Mail sent using /bin/mail is getting handed off to sendmail, however, mail sent using /usr/bin/mailx does not appear to be handled by sendmail. For example, mail to 'postmaster' set using mailx is not getting mapped using /usr/lib/aliases, whereas the same mail sent using /bin/mail succeeds. Laurence Yaffe -- Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnet