?RCS: $Id: mailer.U,v 3.0.1.3 1995/01/11 15:32:11 ram Exp $
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?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1993, Raphael Manfredi
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?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
?RCS: of the source tree for dist 3.0.
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?RCS: $Log: mailer.U,v $
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.3 1995/01/11 15:32:11 ram
?RCS: patch45: can now use Loc variables since path stripping is deferred
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?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1994/05/06 15:10:04 ram
?RCS: patch23: ensure full path value is used for rmail also
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?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1994/01/24 14:14:18 ram
?RCS: patch16: now use _sendmail vars and friends for portability issues
?RCS:
?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:09:10 ram
?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
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?MAKE:mailer: test cat rmail mail smail sendmail Getfile Oldconfig
?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
?S:mailer:
?S: This variable contains the full pathname of a reasonable mailer.
?S: By reasonable, we mean some program which can understand internet
?S: addresses or at least forward them to some internet router. This
?S: mailer should be invoked as "mailer [options] recipients <mail".
?S:.
: determine the name of a reasonable mailer
case "$mailer" in
'')
if $test -f "$sendmail"; then
dflt="$sendmail"
elif $test -f "$smail"; then
dflt="$smail"
elif $test -f "$rmail"; then
dflt="$rmail"
elif $test -f /bin/mail; then
dflt=/bin/mail
else
dflt=$mail
fi
;;
*) dflt="$mailer";;
esac
$cat <<EOM
I need the full pathname of the program used to deliver mail on your system.
A typical answer would be /usr/lib/sendmail or /bin/rmail, but you may choose
any other program, as long as it can be fed from standard input and will
honour any user-supplied headers.
EOM
fn=f
rp='Mail transport agent to be used?'
. ./getfile
mailer="$ans"