Re: LYNX-DEV compiling lynx 2.7 on SCO 3.2v4.2

[Mark Shadley]

Removing "-DMMDF" did the trick.  Although my sendmail isn't getting
the "From:" header right. Though the same thing happens when I invoke
sendmail on the command line.  I'll look at my sendmail.cf

Thanks to you that helped.

Mark Shadley


On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Bela Lubkin wrote:

> Mark Shadley wrote:
> 
> > It compiled fine with that, thank you.  Now, there's another problem...
> > When I try to mail a document, sendmail complains: 
> > 
> >   Recipient names must be specified
> > 
> > We had this same problem with 2.5, that's one reason I'm upgrading.
> > I've tried '/usr/lib/sendmail -t'.
> 
> SCO provides two mail transport agents: MMDF and sendmail.  You might be
> running either of those, or perhaps even a different one (such as smail
> or qmail) that was installed locally.  First determine which one is in
> use.  (The fact that /usr/lib/sendmail exists does not tell us anything:
> pretty much all mail transports provide a program of that name, because
> user programs like Lynx expect to find it.)
> 
> You can figure it out by looking for the "smtp" line in /etc/inetd.conf.
> If this runs "/usr/mmdf/chans/smtpd", you are running MMDF.
> 
> If you are using MMDF, the standard Lynx Makefile entry "make sco"
> should work.  If you're using sendmail, it probably won't.  You need to
> edit the entry and remove "-DMMDF" from it.  I suspect that if you
> remove "-DMMDF", it'll work with the other mailers as well, whatever
> you're using.
> 
> Autoconfig people: currently Lynx allows the mailer to be adjusted in
> lynx.cfg, SYSTEM_MAIL.  But it is used, in src/LYMail.c and LYPrint.c,
> with some arguments added on.  Those arguments vary according to whether
> Lynx was compiled -DMMDF or not.  It seems to me that SYSTEM_MAIL should
> contain the mailer + arguments, or else there should be a separate
> SYSTEM_MAIL_ARGS; then a recompile wouldn't be necessary to change
> mailers.  Currently the SYSTEM_MAIL tunable is of limited use.
> 
> >Bela<
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