Subject: Pine 3.89 on an NCR 3550 (SVR4 without sendmail)?

From: [email-masked] (Mike Andrews)
Date: 9 Aug 1994 22:08:39 -0400

Anyone have any luck getting Pine to work on an NCR 3550 or similar AT&T
SVR4 system that dosen't have sendmail on it?  It compiles and works mostly
OK, it reads mail OK, but chokes on sending mail.

There's actually two problems here: 
1) I don't know exactly what to have Pine call as its MTA, since sendmail
isn't on here.  Should I be calling rmail?  mailx?  With what args?

2) It also gives some weird errors before even getting that far. Things like
"folder 'sent-mail' dosen't exist, create?'" when it does in fact exist....
if I say "y", it says it can't create it because it exists already....
if I say "n", I get an error saying "fcc of message rejected".  (Whatever
that means....  probably a failure to run the MTA right?)

I do have write permission on ~/mail and ~/mail/send-mail, too.  First thing
I checked.

Anyway, has anyone gotten this to fly and want to save me a little hassle? :)

By the way, we have applied the patch from NCR to the mail system that keeps it
from rewriting everything into stupid bang adddresses, if that helps.

Thanks much,

Mike Andrews, Wittenberg University
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From: [email-masked] (Richard Spitz)
Date: 10 Aug 1994 07:40:08 GMT

Mike Andrews ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Anyone have any luck getting Pine to work on an NCR 3550 or similar AT&T
: SVR4 system that dosen't have sendmail on it?  It compiles and works mostly
: OK, it reads mail OK, but chokes on sending mail.

What you need is another machine on your network that has sendmail or
can in another way serve as an smtp server. Then you just enter that
machine in your .pinerc file as "smtp-server=<machine name or address>".

You could also fiddle with the source to enter the correct call to your
smtp mailing program. We had to correct the path to sendmail after it
was finally installed. I wish this was a configurable parameter in
.pinerc or at least a compile-time switch.

Hope that helps,
Richard
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