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From: fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: AT&T Mailers
Message-ID: <10389@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 06:55:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 06:55:15 1985
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In article <5307@mit-eddie.UUCP> gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes:
>>
>> Some machines in AT&T have sendmails running -- typically they're on the
>> Datakit network.

That's nice. When will sendmail (or upas) be distributed with System V?

>> Don't malign AT&T mailers too much, they're not totally losing.

The mailer distributed with System V (/bin/mail) is totally lusing.
Mail aliases, as an implemented idea has been around since Berkeley
first joined the ARPANET and delivermail was spawned. Why in five years
has AT&T not accepted those good ideas that embody modern mailers, and
produced something superior?

>> One other thing, mailx(1) is a user agent, not a mailer.

I never said that mailx was a `mailer.' The reason that it is a useable
user-agent is that it is an old version of Berkeley Mail.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU