norm@ontenv.UUCP (Norman Soley) (12/16/87)
I am running smail 2.5 on an NCR Tower XP. When I send mail to
multiple addresses (eg. mail bob@frobozz jim@zzoborf) smail does it's
thing and generates a uux request which looks like:
uux neighbor!rmail '(pathtofrobozz!frobozz!bob)' '(pathtozzborf!zzoborf!jim)'
The problem is that one of my neighbors has an rmail that can't deal with
more than 1 argument. Both requests to go into the bitbucket.
Is there any way to tell smail about this?
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Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
UUCP: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!---\ VOICE: +1 416 323 2623
{utzoo,utgpu}!sickkids!ontenv!norm ENVOY: MOESIB.B.BB
{mnetor,utgpu}!ontmoh/karl@mumble.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (12/18/87)
From smail's defs.h file, discussing MAXCLEN... /* ** Normally, all mail destined for the local host is delivered with a single ** call to the local mailer, and all remote mail is delivered with one call ** to the remote mailer for each remote host. This kind of 'batching' saves ** on the cpu overhead. ** ** MAXCLEN is used to limit the length of commands that are exec'd by smail. ** This is done to keep other program's buffers from overflowing, or to ** allow for less intelligent commands which can take only one argument ** at a time (e.g., 4.1 /bin/mail). To disable the batching, set MAXCLEN ** a small value (like 0). */ So just turn off batching with a 0. -=- Karl
mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney 214+464-2771) (12/20/87)
In article <267@ontenv.UUCP> norm@ontenv.UUCP (Norman Soley) writes: >I am running smail 2.5 on an NCR Tower XP. >The problem is that one of my neighbors has an rmail that can't deal with >more than 1 argument. There is a Tower XP here that is running an old version of smail. It has a -L option which calls the original mail program, which will split the mail into 2 separate packages for the remote rmail. i.e. smail -L neighbor!dick neighbor!jane neighbor!spot It sounds like your neighboring system should install smail also. -- Greg Hackney Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Dallas, Texas