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Here's how to remove binmail from your system. Don't do this if you have
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configured qmail to use binmail for local delivery.
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1. Find the binmail binary on your system: /usr/libexec/mail.local if
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   that exists, otherwise /bin/mail.
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2. Remove permissions from the binmail binary:
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      # chmod 0 /usr/libexec/mail.local
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3. If the binmail binary was /bin/mail, make sure that ``mail'' still
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   invokes a usable mailer. Under SVR4 you may want to link mail to
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   mailx.
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4. Comment out the comsat line in /etc/inetd.conf, and kill -HUP your
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   inetd.