Re: /bin/mail
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:37:24PM -0400, Charlie Chrisman wrote: > im trying to get qmail to deliever its mail using /bin/mail and i get this > line in the maillog: > > Jun 5 21:53:48 ns1 qmail: 960256428.605530 delivery 8: deferral: > Unable_to_open_/bin/mail:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)/ How did you tell it to use /bin/mail? Greetz, Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]
Re: /bin/mail, what exactly should one do to it?
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 08:29:02AM -0400, Russell P. Sutherland wrote: > * Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28 Oct 1999 04:13]: > > > Having moved my qmail installation from a RedHat 5.2 setup to Mandrake > > Linux 6.1 the one remaining thing I haven't sorted out is what exactly > > one is supposed to to with /bin/mail. > > The /bin/mail in Linux is not the "/bin/mail" mentioned in the qmail > INSTALL documentation and hence can be left alone. It (the former) is a > MUA that eventually calls sendmail and so is not affected by qmail. On > other systems it's known as mailx and is a distant relative of the > original Berkeley mail programme. > Aha! Thanks. Of course I knew that once-upon-a-time but had long since forgotten about the vagaries of mail, Mail, mailx, etc. Yes, the /bin/mail referred to in the qmail documentation acts as an MTA doesn't it, whereas the Linux /bin/mail is an MUA. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/
Re: /bin/mail, what exactly should one do to it?
> Having moved my qmail installation from a RedHat 5.2 setup to Mandrake > Linux 6.1 the one remaining thing I haven't sorted out is what exactly > one is supposed to to with /bin/mail. i wrote an alias for mail and pointed it to qail, which is a wrapper in the qmail package for /bin/mail and i don't have any problems about this anymore (hope i didn't do sth wrong again... :/ ) sorry if this is the wrong solution... love & peace etc, dd
Re: /bin/mail, what exactly should one do to it?
* Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28 Oct 1999 04:13]: > Having moved my qmail installation from a RedHat 5.2 setup to Mandrake > Linux 6.1 the one remaining thing I haven't sorted out is what exactly > one is supposed to to with /bin/mail. The /bin/mail in Linux is not the "/bin/mail" mentioned in the qmail INSTALL documentation and hence can be left alone. It (the former) is a MUA that eventually calls sendmail and so is not affected by qmail. On other systems it's known as mailx and is a distant relative of the original Berkeley mail programme. -- Quist ConsultingEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 219 Donlea DriveVoice: +1.416.696.7600 Toronto ON M4G 2N1 Fax: +1.416.978.6620 CANADA WWW: http://www.quist.on.ca
Re: /bin/mail, what exactly should one do to it?
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Chris Green wrote: > Having moved my qmail installation from a RedHat 5.2 setup to Mandrake > Linux 6.1 the one remaining thing I haven't sorted out is what exactly > one is supposed to to with /bin/mail. I run RH 6.0 with qmail and /bin/mail left as-is. It works fine for me. YMMV. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
Re: /bin/mail substitute
I'll field this one guys. :-) (I just asked this about four days ago Michael!) You don't really need to chmod 0 /bin/mail. Many here have said that /bin/mail works just fine with qmail, as it uses 'sendmail' and that has been substituted with qmail's version (right?). I have created a symbolic link from /bin/mail to /bin/mutt just because I got that suggestion first and it is working and if it aint broke... haha There was some issue to do with local distribution using /bin/mail but it didn't effect me. So, my recommendation is, chmod 555 /bin/mail and simply try it. Good luck! Michael Slade wrote: > Slowly but surely I'm figuring out how to use qmail! > > Latest problem is what to do about /bin/mail . > > I'm running Linux Red Hat 6.0 and have just installed qmail 1.03 with mail > delivery to ~/Maildir using qmail-local for mail delivery. > > I have 'removed' ( chmod 0 ) /bin/mail as per the 'REMOVE.binmail' > instructions but now, of course, I don't have a substitute whenever > something like the system attempts to execute /bin/mail . > > What did I not do ? > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to the mailing list! > > thanks !! > > Michael Slade -- ·.¸¸.·´¯`·. Glenn R. Crownover ·.¸¸.·´¯`·. Owner/CEO - Investor's Network Cafe ·.¸¸.·´¯`·. http://www.bluejava.com/inc/ ·.¸¸.·´¯`·. reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /bin/mail
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > qmail-inject doesnt work the sameway. > On the mailing list archive, i read someone talked about deliver, a linux software. >Freshemat has something about such an application, but the homepage it points to is >only an empty directory. > > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > Using qmail, is /bin/mail supposed to be replaced (by a qmail-* > > > program)? > > Yes. It's /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, I believe. Well, /bin/mail works fine for me on linux red hat (at least 5.2 & 5.0, I believe all versions since 4.5 are using /bin/mail , that is not from sendmail package.) So , I assume no real need to replace /bin/mail w/ anything else. I told that this month on the list & noone said that I'm wrong. I'm wondering why this is not cleared in the FAQ. :) The idea of removing /bin/mail is that it is a part of sendmail package. But in Red Hat it's not: [13:21:39 root@vgsn ]# rpm -qf /bin/mail | less mailx-8.1.1-5 [13:21:46 root@vgsn ]# Bye.Olli.
Re: /bin/mail
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Albert Hopkins wrote: AH> AH>Using qmail, is /bin/mail supposed to be replaced (by a qmail-* program)? /bin/mail and /bin/mailx and friends, if they expect to manipulate your local copy of sendmail (be it in /usr/sbin, /usr/lib, whatever), should work just fine, provided that you install qmail to use /var/spool/mail (INSTALL.VSM) and symbolically link /var/qmail/bin/sendmail to your sendmamil's original location. Or at least that's how we de-sendmailify solaris boxen here. -- --Matt Schnierle --mgs at stargate dot net --Stargate Industries, LLC --#include --"It's not that simple."
Re: /bin/mail
Albert Hopkins wrote/schrieb/scribsit: > Using qmail, is /bin/mail supposed to be replaced (by a qmail-* program)? On Linux: no. All /bin/mail I have seen on Linux is mailx and invokes sendmail. You only need to replace /bin/mail if it actually wants to deliver mail (locally) on its own. One can find this sort of program usually as deliver, mail.local and procmail on Linux systems - but only until the admin has decided to eradicate them. Other systems: depends. (But your header looks like you're running Linux.) Stefan
Re: /bin/mail
Hi there. qmail-inject doesnt work the sameway. On the mailing list archive, i read someone talked about deliver, a linux software. Freshemat has something about such an application, but the homepage it points to is only an empty directory. Have a nice day. On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 02:31:59PM -0700, Jay D. Dyson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > Using qmail, is /bin/mail supposed to be replaced (by a qmail-* > > program)? > > Yes. It's /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, I believe. >