[lug] Sendmail wackyness!

[Nate Duehr]

What was broken with your Debian system?  Were you running stable or
testing/unstable?

Just curious... my Debian machines are the most stable and well-behaved
Linux systems I've had the joy of maintaining.  My Debian systems
running their unstable versions of software have had annoying or
unexpected behaviour from time to time, but these are usually remedied
quickly by the various Debian developers worldwide.

I've been annoyed numerous times by computers only to realize later that
they were simply doing what I told them to do, or in the case of
software packaging, but my own choice to let someone else make those
decisions for me.  

www.linuxfromscratch.org if you want the "perfect" linux... ;-)

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0600, Steve T. wrote:
> 
> I recently replaced my highly broken and annoying Debian system with the
> wonders of Slackware 8.0, yet, much to my surprise, the sendmail configuration
> that it sets up does something incredibly annoying.  Upon running fetchmail,
> as mail arrives on the system, the headers and the first 5 or so lines of
> the message are displayed to all terminals that I'm logged in on - which
> causes a number of problems with programs where I like to see what I'm
> doing.  If anybody has any direct experience fixing this problem, I'd
> appreciate help - if not, I can send the messages sendmail has been putting
> in my system logs that I suspect will point to the problem.
> 
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