Bug#1877: at/batch do not mail output with sendmail installed
Harald Schueler writes ("Bug#1877: at/batch do not mail output with sendmail installed"):
> Package: at
> Version: 2.9a-1
>
> The commands "at" and "batch" do not mail their output if sendmail is
> installed as MTA instead of smail. This is because "atrun" uses
> "/usr/sbin/rmail" (from smail) for sending mail. I think this should be
> changed to /usr/bin/mail, or whatever "cron" uses (cron works with sendmail).
Are you sure this is true in at 2.9a-1 ? My source tree seems to
suggest that they use `mail'. I should probably add a dependency.
Sendmail should provide /usr/sbin/rmail too - that it doesn't is a bug
in the Sendmail package.
Ian.
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