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- From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.xenix
- Subject: Re: Xenix Mail
- Keywords: Xenix, Mail, Tandy
- Date: 26 Jun 90 17:35:18 GMT
- Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL
-
- According to nanook@rwing.UUCP (Robert Dinse):
- >I have a Tandy 6000 running Tandy's bizzare version of Xenix 3.02.00.
- >I would appreciate any help in understanding how mail works on this system,
- >specifically, how the various componenets, mail.local, execmail, main.mn,
- >daemon.mn, and /bin/mail itself all devide the labor of delivering mail.
-
- Okay, here's the rundown. Note that this description is based on SCO
- Xenix 2.2 and 2.3; your milage may vary.
-
- /usr/bin/mail: A user agent, aka user interface, with delusions of
- being a transfer agent. It should just show you mail and let
- execmail handle delivery. However, unless you say "set
- execmail" in the file "/usr/lib/mail/mailrc", it likes to
- deliver local mail on its own. Unfortunately, it thinks that
- everything without a bang or a colon is local.
-
- /usr/bin/rmail: Itty bitty program that runs execmail. Invoked only
- for incoming mail from your UUCP neighbors; not something
- you'd run yourself. It may be smart enough to run uux
- directly; I don't know. Smail 2.5 and 3.1 replace rmail with
- a link to smail.
-
- /usr/lib/mail/execmail: The brains [sic] of the outfit. The central
- part of the Xenix mail transport system. Execmail does
- aliasing, and then runs one of mail.local, mail.cln or uux to
- do the dirty work. Parameters include -m (me too on aliases),
- -n (no aliasing), -r (remote?), -h # (max UUCP hop count) and
- -f user (who the message is supposed to be from).
-
- /usr/lib/mail/mail.local: Delivery of local mail. I *think* it also
- understands UUCP addresses, but don't quote me on that. My
- Deliver program is a plug-in replacement for mail.local.
- (I suppose that this rates as a plug-in plug. :-))
- Parameters include -r user (who the message is supposed to be
- from -- yes, that's "-r").
-
- /usr/lib/mail/mail.cln: Deliver of Micnet or other network mail, i.e.
- mail with a CoLoN in the address. No details here, except
- that the parameters "-h 0 'targethost' 'sender' 'recipient'"
- seem to work for me on Micnet. (Gads, I hate Micnet.)
-
- > I have smail and am trying to figure out how to interface it properly
- >with this version of Xenix.
-
- I'll E-Mail my Xenix patches; that should fix you right up.
-
- --
- Chip, the new t.b answer man <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>
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