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- From: pacolley@ember.UUCP (Paul Colley)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Mailer replacement for Xenix
- Message-ID: <11745@ember.UUCP>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 21:30:28 GMT
- References: <9209061050.AA05570@dynamix.com> <Bu6Bpp.AG8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Sep10.114323.587@pubnet.com>
- Reply-To: pacolley@ember.UUCP (Paul Colley)
- Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Organization: Ember---private system
- Lines: 52
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- In article <1992Sep10.114323.587@pubnet.com> paul@pubnet.com
- (Paul Telles) writes:
-
- >In article <Bu6Bpp.AG8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us
- >(Marc Unangst) writes:
- >
- >>Sure, you *can* get domain-based e-mail running on a Xenix system, but
- >>it's an unbelievable amount of trouble to rip out the Xenix e-mail
- >>system and replace it with your own.
- >
- >First of all, you don't 'rip out' the existing SCO mail system...try adding
- >a simple line to /usr/lib/mail/mailrc and installing Smail 3.1/Elm 2.3.
- >
- >The SCO binaries will co-exists peacefully and the original /usr/bin/mail
- >will continue to function, so Elm 2.3 is optional. None of this is
- >time consuming or troublesome, assuming *you* are competent. You have
- >consistently exaggerated all points, including this one.
-
- As somebody who is willing to admit inexperience, but sure would
- like to have domain addressing anyways,...
-
- From the package size, Smail 3.1 seems like overkill for a small
- UUCP site. Why is it so large? Smail 2.7 seems from the hype to
- fit my needs perfectly, but has been "comming soon" for so many
- months that I suspect it'll never actually happen.
-
- What I'd like is something small that speaks UUCP, understands
- domain addresses and pathalias. Smail 2.5 did the job reasonably
- well in a previous life, is it still the appropriate choice?
-
- For the record, I did once install Smail 2.5, but the experience
- was appropriately described by Paul Telles---"an unbelievable amount
- of trouble to rip out the Xenix e-mail system and replace it with
- your own." While not hugely competent, I have installed enough
- things to know when something is a pain in the neck. And it wasn't
- Smail 2.5 that was the pain in the neck.
-
- Can somebody send me enough details (not "add a simple line and
- install Smail 3.1") to convince me that it's worth trying to replace
- the Xenix mailer a second time?
-
- Just to clarify, I'm asking two separate questions...
-
- - What mailer is appropriate (Smail 2.5, Smail 3.1, something else?)
-
- - How do you make Xenix understand and use the new mailer.
-
- - Paul Colley
- University: colley@qucis.queensu.ca
- Home: pacolley@ember.uucp watmath!ember!pacolley +1 613 545 3807
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