Re: rmail, m-t-a, and uucp
Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
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> On Mar 25, Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> wrote:
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>> - Require that the MTA provides rmail (either by having their own,
>> or by depending on rmail).
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> This would be easy, as a trivial rmail program is a short shell script:
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> #!/bin/bash
> # This rmail command can be used on postfix and qmail systems without
> # a real rmail binary.
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> IFS=" " read -r dummy from dummy
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> exec /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -f "$from" -- "$*"
If it's so trivial what was the reason that sendmail had to split it
into a separate package?
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