Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ncr-sd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!ncr-sd!greg From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: More thoughts on mail relays Message-ID: <326@ncr-sd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 16:04:02 EST Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.326 Posted: Mon Nov 11 16:04:02 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 20:45:47 EST References: <1813@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1746@peora.UUCP> <909@plus5.UUCP> <1761@peora.UUCP> <912@plus5.UUCP> Reply-To: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel) Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego Lines: 19 In article <912@plus5.UUCP> hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) writes: > ... (((Replying to JER, he makes the same point I made about > disabiguating ! and @ addresses, then continues with a reply > to another point))) ... >You raise a very good point. I thought about it, and came up with the >following benefits of using sendmail: > user aliases (not everybody can afford the 3-4 Mbytes occupied > by all the MH software), mail to files, mail to pipes, decent > forwarding capabilities, and local "services" (sending mail to > the lineprinter, for example). >Granted, much of this *could* be done by dedicated, smaller programs. I >haven't seen them yet. I have heard rumors about them, but that's all. If you have heard rumors about them, I'd love to hear more. I still think that the domain server is the right place to do this, since it is just a generalization of routing mail. How easy would it be to add this kind of thing to smail? -- -- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA