Delivermail vs sendmail on 2.9bsd
H. Morrow Long
long at ittvax.UUCP
Wed Nov 28 02:59:39 AEST 1984
A HELPFUL HINT FROM HELOISE
In the course of converting our Vax to 4.2BSD (from 4.1BSD) I
noticed that many local mailers and applications programs
were formatting mail (massaged or computer generated) and
attempting to pipe into /etc/delivermail. Not wanting to
restore an antique program merely to keep these programs happy
I noticed that sendmail is roughly downwardly compatible with
delivermail. Just: 'ln -s /usr/lib/sendmail /etc/delivermail'.
Sendmail can be very powerful once you get into the syntax but
it does use a lot of cpu resources. Remove the
/usr/lib/sendmail.fc (frozen configuration) file while
debugging addresses, mailers and the like but generate a new
.fc file (sendmail -bz) once you have a stable and workable
.cf file.
H. Morrow Long
W.I.T. (Wizard-In-Training)
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