Bug 39017

Summary: /bin/rmail should be mailwrapper'ed
Product: Base System Reporter: Hiroo Ono <hiroo>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Hiroo Ono 2002-06-08 02:20:01 UTC 
	Currently, /bin/rmail is the one provided by sendmail.
	If one receives mails via UUCP and uses qmail as the MTA,
	installing recent stable/current with sendmail 8.12.x or
	making world without `NO_SENDMAIL=true' may be a problem
	because /var/qmail/bin/sendmail called from new rmail
	always returns an error.

Fix: 

/bin/rmail is a program that should be provided by MTA.
	For example, if one uses qmail as the MTA, /bin/rmail
	should be replaced by /var/qmail/bin/sendmail.
	As FreeBSD uses mailwrapper to make MTA alteration easy,
	/bin/rmail is another program that deserves configuration
	by /etc/mail/mailer.conf.

	No patch provided due to my poor ability in programming.
How-To-Repeat: 	Install recent stable or current with sendmail 8.12.x.
	Use qmail as MTA with mailwrapper.
	Receive mail via UUCP.
Comment 1 Doug Barton freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-06-08 23:37:25 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed


The last time this conversation came up we decided that the condition 
you describe is such an edge case that those actually using UUCP for 
mail should be relied upon to make things right for their own systems.