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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!mudos!mju
- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: Mailer replacement for Xenix
- Message-ID: <BunCD4.J4H@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 01:05:24 GMT
- References: <9209140655.AA28168@dynamix.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
- Lines: 38
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- In article <9209140655.AA28168@dynamix.com> david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis) writes:
- >it's install instructions updated lately. (but I highly doubt it, you
- >never do indicate exactly *which* "third-party" mailer you are talking
- >about that you had so much trouble with)
-
- smail2.5, then smail3.1.
-
- >So far, I haven't seen ONE SINGLE person in this group complain about
- >installing a better mailer like you have. Why is that???
-
- Probably because you haven't been looking hard enough. I don't
- remember if it was here or in another one of the comp.unix.* groups,
- but I definitely remember someone speaking up about the large amount
- of trouble they had with smail and Xenix. (No, I don't remember their
- name, but maybe they'll speak up.)
-
- >Standards? So mail is mail on any Unix system??? Right ...
-
- Not exactly. But one SysV mailer is generally pretty similar to
- another (i.e., AT&T binmail/mailx), and one BSD mailer is generally
- pretty similar to another (i.e., sendmail). smail3 is even a complete
- drop-in replacement for sendmail; just move /usr/lib/sendmail aside,
- add a symlink from /usr/local/bin/smail to /usr/lib/sendmail, and
- you're up and running. How much easier can you get? At least ODT has
- finally added sendmail, for those of us that prefer standards. (Well,
- it's not IDA, but at least it's a start.)
-
- >DIFFICULT PROCESS (so far there's been quite a few ppl to support this
- >stance and NOT A SINGLE ONE to support yours, sorta makes ya think don't
- >it?)
-
- Not really. I've never believed in religiously following the masses
- -- generally just gets you in trouble.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't use Windows. Real men use X.
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | Only a real man would use a GUI where the
- | shift keys after "Alt" are "Super" and "Hyper."
-