dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (07/31/90)
Has anyone ever tried to modify MH so that it uses /bin/mail as the
mail transport mechanism? There are systems out here that don't
have sendmail, mmdf, or pop, but that handle mail quite well.
I have ported MH 6.7 to SVR4, and run into a basic design flaw
in the SVR4 mail surrogates. Basically, any mail that comes
in via SMTP and then has to go back out due to it being non-local,
will have its headers all screwed up.
This flaw can be seen without MH, but MH triggers it every time.
It seems to me that the basic problem with adding /bin/mail as
an MH mts is that MH seems to depend on the mts being able to
get the recipients from the header, and /bin/mail requires that
recipients be found on the command line.
--
...David Elliott
...dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce
...(408)944-4073
..."Damn! I'm running out of integers!"