[comp.emacs] problem with GNU emacs sendmail under Sun OS4

evs@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ed Simpson) (12/30/89)

We are having problems with GNU emacs sendmail.el in the lisp function
sendmail-send-it.  We are running emacs version 18.53 under Sun OS 4.0.3
with a network of suns.  The problem is that /usr/lib/sendmail, when
called by sendmail-send-it, leaves behind the mail temp files (df* lf*
qf* xf*) in the /var/spool/mqueue directory on the machine that the
message was sent from, even after the mail has been delivered.  This
problem does not occur when /usr/lib/sendmail is called by
/usr/ucb/mail.  The end result is that all emacs mail gets delivered OK,
but the mail temp files pile up the in /var/spool/mqueue.  Has anyone
seen this problem?  Using the lisp debugger I determined that
sendmail-send-it is calling the following:

/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t -oem -odb

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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