We tried it but there were lots of funny interactions with BSD mail...for
example it would add extra >'s at the end of addresses and cause lots of
bounces.
And another wierd thing was the interaction with the vacation program,
also adding extra >'s and not working consistently in general. (Since then
we have switched to Peter Samuel's version which works very nicely).
I posted to this and other lists and eventually just wrote a oneliner that
solved all these problems. Granted I never really figured out what they
were exactly, but this worked for us:
ella 28# more sendmail
#!/bin/sh
cat | /var/qmail/bin/predate /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
[new mail arrives from Dave Sill]
> qmail-aware SGI admins know this, and remove the sendmail binary and
> relink it to qmail after upgrading.
I didn't do the qmail...install it was already there when I got the
system. And, it was my first IRIX upgrade...but this is exactly what I
learned and resolved as I explained above.
> You reinvented /var/qmail/bin/sendmail? Sounds like you didn't read
> the installation instructions very carefully.
Well if the one liner I wrote above is reinventing then I guess so :) But
mostly I was just trying to satisfy a few users who insist on using the
BSD mail client. Several qmail list experts (Harald/Mate) worked with me
extensively and we ran outr of avenues, but I am still eternally grateful!
Samuel Daffner
Mills College ITS
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Soffen, Matthew wrote:
> Umm.. Why didn't you use /var/qmail/bin/sendmail ?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Samuel Dries-Daffner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 12:19 PM
> > To: Dave Sill
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Q] qmail speed "again"
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
> >
> > > Silver CHEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The mail reason that I can't switch to qmail is that I'm NOT
> > > >familiar with qmail in early days, so I chose sendmail.
> > >
> > > You can install qmail without removing/breaking sendmail, so you can
> > > revert to sendmail easily.
> >
> > On our server (SGI Indy -- IRIX 6.5) this was mostly true, with one
> > exception-- BSD mail users.
> >
> > We had a problem with a sendmail that was re-installed by default on
> > our
> > IRIX upgrades. ...because it seemed to be called by those users still
> > using BSD mail on our system. Other users (like pine, IMAP, POP) had
> > no
> > problems. So we made a simple wrapper of sendmail that piped messages
> > to
> > qmail-inject.
> >
> >
> > FWIW---
> >
> > Samuel Daffner
> > Mills College ITS
>
