>Subject: Re: [EXIM] problem implementing exim on SCO OpenServer
>Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:56:22 +0300
>Sender: exim-users-request@???
>Quoth exim newsreader on Mon, May 31, 1999:
>> The trouble I am experiencing is that the native SCO 'mail' command
>> calls the sendmail binary (in this case the EXIM binary) with an option
>> of "-oo".
>> This options according to the sendmail docs is:
>> "this message may have old style headers".
>What are those old-style headers? RFC 561?
>Vadik.
I am not actually sure. However I think the keyword here is "may" have.
The actual route the mail takes is:
MUA -> execmail -> sendmail
The 'mail' binary merely sends the message via stdout to execmail, with
only the recient address as a parameter.
The 'execmail' binary does unknown processing/interrogation of the message,
and once again sends it via stdout to sendmail/exim, with the addition
of two command line parameters, "-oo", and "-oem".
I beleive that execmail is merely adding "-oo" as a matter of routine.
I can write my "own" execmail to drop the "-oo", but a simpler way there
must be.
BTW, SCO has zero documentation on "execmail". It's purpose escapes me.
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