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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Mailer replacement for Xenix
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.201335.20342@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 20:13:35 GMT
- References: <9209061050.AA05570@dynamix.com> <Bu6Bpp.AG8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Sep10.114323.587@pubnet.com> <11745@ember.UUCP>
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- In article <11745@ember.UUCP>, pacolley@ember.UUCP (Paul Colley) writes:
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- | 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?
-
- Smail 2.5 and mush is my choice. I still have a system on mush 6.5
- because nothing is broken.
-
- | 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.
-
- It depends on how you do it. I have no use for the proprietary SCO
- mail thing offered as an alternative. I can't even remember the name of
- it, but it might be MICnet, or something like that. If you don't need
- that, you compile smail2.5 to use execmail as the local delivery agent,
- move rmail to rmail.orig, link smail to rmail, and smile.
-
- I've done it on a number of systems, and typically it takes about an
- hour from floppy to the first cold carbonated beverage. I didn't touch
- the SCO mail system beyond that, or maybe I put a link for mail to mush
- as well, I don't remember since I always type mush, mailx, or whatever
- on all systems to get what I want.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-