Re: rmail, m-t-a, and uucp
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
>> On Mar 25, Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> wrote:
>>> - Require that the MTA provides rmail (either by having their own,
>>> or by depending on rmail).
>> This would be easy, as a trivial rmail program is a short shell script:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> # This rmail command can be used on postfix and qmail systems without
>> # a real rmail binary.
>> IFS=" " read -r dummy from dummy
>> 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?
Sendmail's rmail is smarter and according to the docs does more. It
not only invokes /us/sbin/sendmail with correct options but also
replaces the usual mbox "From foo..." lines with a bang-path.
However the latter is probably only useful for sendmail and sucks for
other MTAs.
http://bugs.debian.org/212532
cu and- ppl should use bsmtp anyway -reas
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