Trouble with Xenix rmail.

[Ron Kuris]

In article <54 at aos.UUCP> steveb at aos.UUCP (Steve Bogner) writes:
>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
>> 
>> 		===== stderr was =====
>> 	Usage: rmail username
>> 
>> Does anyone know if the Xenix rmail just incapable of this, or am I doing
>> something wrong?  System is Xenix 2.3.1.
>
>Xenix rmail can't handle multiple recipients.  The site which feeds
>you needs to take the "m" out of the Flags part of their uucp mailer
>specification.  This prevents their site from putting multiple
>recipients in the rmail line.  The bad part of this is that you get a
>separate message for each user, which increases the connect time.

A better solution is to get smail and install it.  It handles multiple
recipients and completely replaces rmail.
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