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Re: sendmail queuename errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Nov 1 16:31:17 1995
To: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 1995 13:02:20 EST."
<199511011802.NAA24203@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 16:30:51 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Presumably, this is being cause by a line in my dotfiles that
> essentially does:
> echo "foo" | pmail jered -s "bar"
Make that
echo "foo" | pmail -s "bar" jered
I think you'll find that the same invocation fails under Ultrix,
although it may depend on the particular build of pmail.
(The problem is that pmail is not interpreting -s as "subject", but
instead passing it on to sendmail. The -s option to sendmail is not
documented and causes it to discard its setuid status and break unless
you're root.)
