Oh, yes you are right. When I originally installed qmail, I didn't know which
mailers were "usable". REMOVE.binmail recommended mailx, but I couldn't find it on
my system. I had never heard of 'mutt', but alas, here it is and it seems
compatible (I tested it).
Thank you much Patrick!
Patrick Berry wrote:
> On 9/23/99 at 2:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn Crownover) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> had the thought:
>
> > I had 'chmod'ed it to 0 per "REMOVE.binmail" (in <qmail>/doc) step 2, as part
> > of the INSTALL instructions.
> >
> > Then I got this message from my cron job:
> >
> > ------------
> > 23 Sep 04:02:01 ntpdate[29031]: step time server 192.6.38.127 offset 1.067004
> > sec
> > /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: /bin/mail: Permission denied
> > ------------
>
> In the REMOVE.binmail file it just says to link it to a usable mailer. I looked
> at the mail and mutt man page and they seemed to be command line compliant. I
> would guess that most mailers are compliant that way. You could just symlink
> /bin/mail to /usr/bin/mutt or whatever...
>
> Another option is to leave sendmail on the system in conjunction with qmail, but
> I doubt that is really necessary.
>
> Pat
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