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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!mdisea!kelsey
- From: kelsey@mdd.comm.mot.com (Joe Kelsey)
- Subject: Installing smail3.1.26 on SVR4
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.224045.24075@mdd.comm.mot.com>
- Summary: mailsurr file for SVR4 and smail3.1.26
- Keywords: mailsurr SVR4 smail3.1.26
- Sender: news@mdd.comm.mot.com
- Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:40:45 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- I just installed smail3.1.26 on ESIX SVR4.0.4. I installed it using the
- ``natural'' edits to the EDITME file (os=sys5.4, etc.) I did not install it
- in /usr/bin/sendmail, since SVR4 does not, by default, include sendmail there.
- In fact, SVR4 includes the sendmail configuration in /usr/ucblib, but does not
- document how to actually use it. Rather than even trying to fool around with
- the stuff in /usr/ucblib, I let smail install itself in /usr/local/bin/smail
- and also let it install itself as /bin/rmail. Now, remote mail received via
- uucp comes in correctly through smail, but local messages don't. In order to
- force /bin/mail to send everything to smail I replaced the default mailsurr
- file (in /etc/mail/mailsurr) with the following one line file:
-
- '(.+)' '(.+)' '< /usr/local/bin/smail -em -i \\2'
-
- Voila! /bin/mail sends everything to smail and I didn't have to fool around
- with the LMAIL stuff or anything. In fact, I could probably restore
- /bin/rmail.SAV into /bin/rmail and let rmail forward everything to smail...an
- experiment for the future?
-
- Since I don't have an ethernet connection, I don't know the details of
- replacing the smtpd entry in the network startup, but it probably doesn't
- involve much more than editing an rc file somewhere...
-
- /Joe
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