NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/mail/sendmail/2738

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From: [e-mail] (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Best choice: pathalias/sendmail or smail?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:07:09 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <[e-mail]>
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In article <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:

:1)    should you so desire, you can probably use your existing
:    .cf initially; then you can add configuration information
:    to take advantage of the IDA features or you can start
:    with a new .cf generated from Neil Rickert's boilerplate
:    .cf using m4. The idea is to keep things running
:    smoothly during the transition, which is unlikely to
:    happen with the ``toss everything out and start from
:    scratch'' approach of #4.

Heh...  depends on the setup, I imagine.  smail has a "test" mode that
allows one to create the binaries in a test directory so that the
transition can be a lot smoother.  And smail 3.1's 1 meg. source
distribution is half of sendmail+IDA's 2 meg.  Less to go wrong?  You
be the judge.

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