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Subject: |
Re: Approve switches ???? |
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From: |
Lindsay Haisley <fmouse @
bga .
com> |
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Date: |
Sat, 9 Jul 1994 11:54:40 -0500 (CDT) |
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To: |
rouilj @
cs .
umb .
edu (John P. Rouillard) |
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<199407091504.AA20018@cs.umb.edu> from "John P. Rouillard" at Jul 9, 94 11:04:11 am |
Actually after looking into it it appears that the error is coming out of
mail which is invoked by approve. The situation is an odd one. approve is
invoking mail with a command line of the form
[stdout] | mail -s "" recipient
Mail is barfing on the null subject string. If I rewrite the invocation so
that it goes like....
[stdout] | mail -s " " recipient
Then everything appears to work properly.
Our system is BSDI Unix 1.1. The mail program is a rather old one which
advirtises itself as Mail version 5.5 6/1/90. I'm not sure if an update is
available or if it is if it would fix the problem.
Thus spoke John P. Rouillard ...
> Check your path. I think you are using the wrong approve.
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> In message <199407091020.FAA28984@zoom.bga.com>,
> Lindsay Haisley writes:
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> >I'm attemptint to set up moderated lists for use by some of our local list
> >managers. According to the man page on approve (which came with md 1.92) I
> >need to set up a .majordomo file with the appropriate information (which
> >I've done) and use the syntax 'approve message_name' where message_name is
> >the name of the file to which a BOUNCE message has been saved. Approve
> >returns the following:
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> >You must specify direct recipients with -s, -c, or -b.
> >
> >What gives here? This may be an RTFM issue, but the man page makes no
> >mention of switches for approve.
> >
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