Re: qmail and /bin/mail

[Uwe Ohse]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:55:35AM -0800, Donald R. McGregor wrote:
 
>  /bin/mail -f "${SENDER:-MAILER-DAEMON}" -d "$USER"'
> 
> But the linux /bin/mail complains about both -f and -d
> args. What's a better way to get this done? What are the
> magic args to /bin/mail to get this to work?

  /bin/mail "$USER" -- -f "${SENDER:-MAILER-DAEMON}"
may work for you, or you may boot/proc.

The /bin/mail interface has not been very stable under linux. 

Regards, Uwe