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From: schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov (Rick Schneeman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Sendmail and NetBSD-0.9
Message-ID: <22688@durer.cme.nist.gov>
Date: 27 Aug 93 13:21:34 GMT
Sender: news@cme.nist.gov
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Nntp-Posting-Host: sst170.ncsl.nist.gov
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]

Has anyone seen this error before from sendmail on NetBSD-0.9? It looks
like sendmail is forking mail with a -r option which is illegal....


| From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Aug 27 09:13:47 1993
| 
|    ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
| <postmaster@sst167.ncsl.nist.gov>  (hard error -- address deleted)
| 
|    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
| mail: illegal option -- r
| Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
|             [- sendmail-options ...]
|        mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
|        mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
| 554 root... unknown mailer error 1
 
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Richard D. Schneeman                                      rschneeman@nist.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Computer Systems Lab, Technology Building, MS-B266 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA
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