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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node254.html">Where to Get More </A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node218.html">Sendmail+IDA</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0017700000">Mixing and Matching Binary Distributions</A></H1>
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There is no true standard configuration of electronic mail transport and
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delivery agents and there is no ``one true directory structure.''
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Accordingly, it is necessary to ensure that all the various pieces of the
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system (USENET news, mail, TCP/IP) agree on the location of the local mail
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delivery program (lmail, deliver, etc.), remote mail delivery
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program (rmail), and the mail transport program (sendmail or
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smail). Such assumptions are not generally documented, although use of
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the strings command can help determine what files and directories are
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expected. The following are some problems we've seen in the past with some
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of the commonly available binary distributions and sources.
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Some versions of the NET-2 distribution of TCP/IP have services
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defined for a program called umail rather than
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sendmail.<LI>
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There are various ports of elm and mailx that look for
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a delivery agent of /usr/bin/smail rather than sendmail.<LI>
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Sendmail+IDA has a built-in local mailer for deliver, but
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expects it to be located in /bin rather than the more typical
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location of /usr/bin.
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Rather than go through the trouble of building all the mail clients from
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sources, we generally fake it with the appropriate soft links...
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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