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From: lyndon@orthanc.com (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: smail-3.1.29.1 cannot lock mailboxes
Date: 8 Jun 1995 15:09:59 -0700
Organization: Orthanc Systems
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Message-ID: <3r7sg8$1ih@multivac.orthanc.com>
References: <3r29u3$9vm@Mars.mcs.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: multivac.orthanc.com
chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton) writes:
>I'm having troubles with smail-3.1.29.1 I get permission denied
>errors when trying to lock the mailbox before appending to it on local
>delivery.
The normal mailbox append behaviour doesn't work on 4.4BSD derived systems.
The solution is to use /usr/libexec/mail.local to perform final delivery to
local mailboxes. Change the entry for 'local' in the smail transports file
to this:
local: driver=pipe, # call out to a program
return_path, # include a Return-Path: field
local, # use local forms for delivery
# from, # supply a From_ envelope line
-max_addrs; # give multiple addresses to command
cmd="/usr/libexec/mail.local -f $from $(${lc:user}$)"
--lyndon
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