Thanks Paul.  I had GNU mailutils installed, and although that gave me
/usr/bin/mail it apparently wasn't enough.  After I installed mailx and
created a link from /bin/mail to /usr/bin/mail it all worked.

Thanks,
Stefan

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Paul Bijnens wrote:

> S. Keel wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Frank Smith wrote:
> >
> >>Does exim exist?
> >>Does /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp work (it should list the mail queue) or
> >>do you get the same error?
> >
> > Exim exists, no problem there.  When I try /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp nothing
> > happens.  I just get another prompt.
>
>
> I'm not an exim user, so I may be wrong, but amanda actually needs a
> mail program that accepts this syntax:
>
>       Some_Mailer -s Subject user < msg
>
> Sendmail does not.  Neither do the usual sendmail alternatives.
> You need the berkeley mail program:  Mail, mailx or mail.
>
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