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- From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc
- Subject: Smail under Xenix System V: a fix for Micnet users
- Message-ID: <6901@ncoast.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Dec 87 02:32:22 GMT
- Sender: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
- Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
- Lines: 95
- Approved: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
- X-Archive: comp.sources.misc/8712/10
-
- On December 1, I posted modifications to the smail program for use with
- SCO Xenix System V. Several people have installed these modifications and
- are now running smail without trouble. (If you have installed my smail
- mods, please send me a short note; I want to build a mailing list.)
-
- However -- Allen Gwinn (allen@sulaco) has reported a problem using
- smail with my changes on a Micnet network. Specifically, Micnet can be
- configured so that all UUCP traffic is automatically forwarded to a
- `gateway' machine. When Allen installed smail, this automatic forwarding
- broke down because execmail, which handles the forwarding, wasn't being used
- for remote mail. Instead, smail was calling uux directly.
-
- (Pocket editorial: I personally think that Micnet is a loss. Here at A T
- Engineering, we have two in-house Xenix machines, and we talk with UUCP.
- It's much simpler to administer than a mixed network. -- But I digress.)
-
- What follows is a patch to deliver.c. This patch has the following effect:
- In a system with execmail, smail will give _all_ mail, regardless of
- destination, to the local mailer (execmail.x). Since execmail handles
- Micnet forwarding, the world becomes sane again. (Well, almost. :-))
-
- (This article is suitable for feeding directly to Larry Wall's `patch' program.
- If you don't have patch, get it -- it's the best thing since `diff'.)
-
- (Oh, by the way: I can't be responsible for the effects of installing this
- patch. Void where prohibited. Not the Beatles.)
-
- Index: deliver.c
- *** smail_prev/deliver.c Tue Dec 1 14:52:01 1987
- --- smail/deliver.c Fri Dec 18 09:52:41 1987
- ***************
- *** 223,229
-
- if (retrying) {
- command = scommand;
- ! } else if (form == LOCAL) {
- command = lcommand;
- } else {
- command = rcommand;
- --- 223,237 -----
-
- if (retrying) {
- command = scommand;
- ! } else {
- ! #if defined(EXECMAIL)
- ! /*
- ! * If we are in a Xenix system with execmail,
- ! * let execmail handle all messages (except
- ! * retries). If we were to call uux directly,
- ! * then automatic forwarding of all UUCP traffic
- ! * to a single Micnet gateway wouldn't work.
- ! */
- command = lcommand;
- #else
- /*
- ***************
- *** 225,235
- command = scommand;
- } else if (form == LOCAL) {
- command = lcommand;
- ! } else {
- ! command = rcommand;
- ! if(flags == uux_noqueue) {
- ! noqcnt++;
- ! }
- }
- ADVISE("COMMAND: %s\n", command);
-
- --- 233,252 -----
- * to a single Micnet gateway wouldn't work.
- */
- command = lcommand;
- ! #else
- ! /*
- ! * In a system without execmail, give the message
- ! * to either the local mailer or uux.
- ! */
- ! if (form == LOCAL) {
- ! command = lcommand;
- ! } else {
- ! command = rcommand;
- ! if(flags == uux_noqueue) {
- ! noqcnt++;
- ! }
- ! }
- ! #endif
- }
- ADVISE("COMMAND: %s\n", command);
-
- [End of patch]
- --
- Chip Salzenberg "chip@ateng.UUCP" or "{codas,uunet}!ateng!chip"
- A T Engineering My employer's opinions are not mine, but these are.
- "Gentlemen, your work today has been outstanding, and I intend to recommend
- you all for promotion -- in whatever fleet we end up serving." - JTK
-