Harald Schueler writes ("Bug#1877: at/batch do not mail output with sendmail installed"): > Package: at > Version: 2.9a-1 > > The commands "at" and "batch" do not mail their output if sendmail is > installed as MTA instead of smail. This is because "atrun" uses > "/usr/sbin/rmail" (from smail) for sending mail. I think this should be > changed to /usr/bin/mail, or whatever "cron" uses (cron works with sendmail).
Are you sure this is true in at 2.9a-1 ? My source tree seems to suggest that they use `mail'. I should probably add a dependency. Sendmail should provide /usr/sbin/rmail too - that it doesn't is a bug in the Sendmail package. Ian.