Re: sendmail, deliver and procmail

[miquels@Q.cistron.nl]

You (Rob Leslie) wrote:
> There is more than one version of mail.local distributed with the sendmail
> source. One is purported to be a port for Linux (in the `contrib' directory.)
> This Linux version, however, does not do Debian-style mailbox locking like the
> original version does (in the `mail.local' directory.)

Aaaahhh - that is the reason of all the confusion. As I said, I'm using
the mail.local from the mail.local/ subdirectory. I didn't even have to
port it - just  adjust some things here and there. Here's the diff:

diff -cNr sendmail-8.7.3.orig/mail.local/Makefile sendmail-8.7.3/mail.local/Makefile
*** sendmail-8.7.3.orig/mail.local/Makefile	Mon Jul 19 18:49:15 1993
--- sendmail-8.7.3/mail.local/Makefile	Tue Mar  5 21:35:05 1996
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*** 1,9 ****
! #	@(#)Makefile	8.1 (Berkeley) 7/19/93
  
! PROG=	mail.local
! MAN8=	mail.local.0
! BINOWN=	root
! BINMODE=4555
! INSTALLFLAGS=-fschg
  
! .include <bsd.prog.mk>
--- 1,14 ----
! CPPFLAGS= -I../src
  
! mail.local: mail.local.o
! 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $<
  
! install: mail.local
! 	install -o root -g root -m 4555 mail.local $(prefix)/usr/sbin/mail.local
! 	install -o root -g root -m 644 mail.local.8 $(prefix)/usr/man/man8/mail.local.8
! 
! clean:
! 	- rm -f mail.local mail.local.o core
! 
! %.o: %.c
! 	$(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<
diff -cNr sendmail-8.7.3.orig/mail.local/Makefile.bsd sendmail-8.7.3/mail.local/Makefile.bsd
*** sendmail-8.7.3.orig/mail.local/Makefile.bsd	Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
--- sendmail-8.7.3/mail.local/Makefile.bsd	Tue Mar  5 21:35:05 1996
***************
*** 0 ****
--- 1,9 ----
+ #	@(#)Makefile	8.1 (Berkeley) 7/19/93
+ 
+ PROG=	mail.local
+ MAN8=	mail.local.0
+ BINOWN=	root
+ BINMODE=4555
+ INSTALLFLAGS=-fschg
+ 
+ .include <bsd.prog.mk>
diff -cNr sendmail-8.7.3.orig/mail.local/mail.local.c sendmail-8.7.3/mail.local/mail.local.c
*** sendmail-8.7.3.orig/mail.local/mail.local.c	Wed Jun 21 17:24:41 1995
--- sendmail-8.7.3/mail.local/mail.local.c	Tue Mar  5 21:35:05 1996
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*** 101,109 ****
--- 101,111 ----
  
  #ifndef BSD4_4
  # define _BSD_VA_LIST_	va_list
+ #ifndef __linux__
  extern char	*strerror __P((int));
  extern int	snprintf __P((char *, int, const char *, ...));
  #endif
+ #endif
  
  /*
   * If you don't have setreuid, and you have saved uids, and you have
***************
*** 693,699 ****
  	}
  }
  
! #ifndef BSD4_4
  
  # ifndef __osf__
  char *
--- 695,701 ----
  	}
  }
  
! #if !defined(BSD4_4) && !defined(__linux__)
  
  # ifndef __osf__
  char *
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