war@indetech.UUCP (Andy R.) (04/21/89)
dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes: ] In article <599@netcom.UUCP> lang@netcom.UUCP (Ghost of Banquo) writes: ] >The problem is this: When using Mush to send mail, it places a blank line ] >after the header information it sends to the mailer (smail). Since it ] >passes the Subject field on the command line to smail, it ends up being ] ] This last line I don't understand. What do you mean by that? I have ] never known an MTA (such as smail, sendmail, etc) to take the "subject" ] of a message on its command line. Mush isn't configured to do that anyway ] (that is, it's not configured to send the subject header to the MTAs command ] line). This could be the source of your problem since no one else running ] smail or any other MTA has reported a similar problem. ] ] If smail has an option to take the subject from the command line, you ] should not specify it in your config.h file. Sorry, I don't know anything ] about smail, so my comments about it are speculation. ] Well, I can't speak for Smail2.X, however Smail3 does NOT have a command line flag for Subject: lines. And as Dan said, to the best of my knowledge, no Mail Transport Agent (MTA) that I'm aware of supplies such a flag. Andy Rundquist war@indetech.uucp -- Joe Bob says: "Check it out."
david@dhw68k.cts.com (David H. Wolfskill) (04/22/89)
In article <2541@asteria.indetech.uucp> war@indetech.uucp (Andy R.) writes: |dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes: |] In article <599@netcom.UUCP> lang@netcom.UUCP (Ghost of Banquo) writes: |] >The problem is this: When using Mush to send mail, it places a blank line |] >after the header information it sends to the mailer (smail). Since it |] >passes the Subject field on the command line to smail, it ends up being |] This last line I don't understand. What do you mean by that? I have |] never known an MTA (such as smail, sendmail, etc) to take the "subject" |] of a message on its command line. |Well, I can't speak for Smail2.X, however Smail3 does NOT have a command line |flag for Subject: lines. smail 2.5 (as distributed) has no such command line flag. david -- David H. Wolfskill uucp: ...{spsd,zardoz,felix}!dhw68k!david InterNet: david@dhw68k.cts.com