Trouble with Xenix rmail.

[Phil Hughes]

In article <422 at oha.UUCP>, tony at oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
> My mail feed from alberta will send a message to two recepients at the same
> address with a uux request to "rmail user1 user2".  The sender receives the
> following back from our machine:

> 	remote execution	[uucp job albertaAAaa3 (5/26-12:59:50)]
> 		rmail tony al
> 	exited with status 1

> Does anyone know if the Xenix rmail just incapable of this, or am I doing
> something wrong?  System is Xenix 2.3.1.

I had this happen a few weeks ago.  It is a feature.
The solution I chose was to install smail.  An alternative is to
rename rmail to something like rmail.dumb and write a shell script
called rmail that would pass argments one at a time to rmail.dumb.
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