Re: [EXIM] problem implementing exim on SCO OpenServer

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: exim newsreader
CC: exim-users
New-Topics: [EXIM] sendmail command line [Was: problem implementing ...]
Subject: Re: [EXIM] problem implementing exim on SCO OpenServer
On Mon, 31 May 1999, exim newsreader wrote:

> 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".
>
> EXIM barfs, complaining
> "exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -oo"
>
> Short of writing a wrapper for the SCO mail binary, is there any other
> way to have exim accept and/or ignore the "-oo" option being thrown at it?


There is an item on the Wish List for providing some way of configuring
Exim to ignore (or, maybe, translate) the huge variety of sendmail
options that keep turning up. I really must get round to implementing
something.


-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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