On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Alberto Dainotti wrote:
> I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but
> I've read the documentation and I'm missing something..
> In "REMOVE.binmail":
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> 3. If the binmail binary was /bin/mail, make sure that ``mail'' still
> invokes a usable mailer. Under SVR4 you may want to link mail to
> mailx.
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> My question is: to what do I have to link /bin/mail ???
> /bin/mailx and /bin/mail were links to /bin/Mail, which I chmoded to 0
> following the instructions in "REMOVE.binmail"
> (My system is a slackware 7.1.)
>
> I tried to link /bin/mail to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-local .. seemed
> resonable to me .. and that's the result:
This is a difficult one. For instance, under Solaris, if you
link to mailx, then files in /etc such as .login and profile
will generate errors at login because Solaris mailx
doesn't understand the -E option.
Scott
