Re: /bin/mail

2000-06-05 Thread Peter van Dijk

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?

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Re: /bin/mail, what exactly should one do to it?

1999-10-28 Thread Chris Green

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.

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Re: /bin/mail, what exactly should one do to it?

1999-10-28 Thread dd




> 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?

1999-10-28 Thread Russell P. Sutherland

* 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.

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Re: /bin/mail, what exactly should one do to it?

1999-10-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs

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.

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Re: /bin/mail substitute

1999-09-26 Thread Glenn Crownover


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

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Re: /bin/mail

1999-06-22 Thread Anonymous

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

1999-06-17 Thread Matt Schnierle

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.

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Re: /bin/mail

1999-06-16 Thread Anonymous

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

1999-06-16 Thread Anonymous

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:
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> 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.
>