elm and rmail

[Syd Weinstein]

tb at pemstgt.gtc.de (Tillmann Basien) writes:
:I want to use elm 2.2 PL16 on SCO XENIX 2.3.3.

:There was no problem to compile the software. But when I start elm and want
:to send a mail I get an segment violation error.
:After debugging I fixed the problem, but can solve it.
:ELM calls rmail ( I have no sendmail or recmail):
:	(( /usr/bin/rmail tb ; /bin/rm -f tmpfile)&) < tmpfile
[tmp file deleted]

:I have also installed EXECLAN LAN WORKPLACE with smtp. This has a special
:version of rmail, I think the orignial SCO programm is called rmail.true.

:When I specifie rmail.true, elm works well on my local mashine. To other
:nodes the transmission file looks:

:	From anonymous Mon Jun 25 19:30:07 1990 remote from pemstgt
:	Subject: test
:Please, how can tell me what I must do?
I wish people would read the README file.
Its on the first page of it even....

On SCO Xenix, with a straight unmodifed mail system,
the mailer for Elm is /usr/lib/mail/execmail.  (Unless
you have bagged the entire SCO mailer system like most of us :-) )

Excelan LAN Workplace even replaces execmail, but the new executable
also works properly for local mail.
Excelan LAN Workplace SMTP does not work well for the environment
Elm expects.  It does the headers
all wrong for all but local domains.  I suggest if you need DNS
type smtp, you go after sendmail or smail 3.1.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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