frankb@usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell) (06/03/89)
I was really glad to get rn working under SCO Xenix, but I had a bit of a problem using the 'r' and 'R' options. For you vnews and readnews fans, those are the options used to reply to an article via e-mail (preferred over 'f' and 'F'). Anyway, it turns out that rn calls a shell script called 'Rnmail' which handles the generation of the mail piece, then ships it off to a mailer to do the dirty work. My configuration (as assembled by Configure) was sending the mail to recnews... which had no idea what to do with the internet formats I had told Configure to use. I chose to use internet reply addresses since I've had such awful results with those Path: addresses being munged or whatever. Could it be that bang paths are directional? :) Anyway, a quick flick of the software knife fixes: For those who have not yet run Configure, ie newcomers, make the following change to Configure: 1503a1504,1505 > else if usg && $test -f /bin/rmail; then > mailer=/bin/rmail I'm not sure that the test is a good one. I seem to remember that rmail exists for other mailers (ie that's the generic name). It might be better to test for /usr/bin/smail (a link to /bin/rmail) since we specifically want a mailer which will handle internet-style addresses. Comments? And if you have already done your Configure and have been living with this problem, just change the config.sh and re-make. There is one line about the mailer which I changed to look like: mailer='/bin/rmail' You could presumably do 'make install', but I just copied Rnmail to /usr/bin.news and it seems to work great. -- Frank Bicknell UniSource; 1405 Main St, Ste 709; Sarasota, FL 34236 killer!usource!frankb || frankb@usource.UUCP