Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!amdcad!tim From: tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Mail on the RT Message-ID: <22376@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 19:05:37 GMT References: <12081@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: tim@delirun.amd.com (Tim Olson) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices Lines: 21 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article <12081@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> matt@violet.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes: | | AIX 2.1.2 has no sendmail command; instead, it has mail (which can be used | *only* to send a message to a user on the local machine), and netmail (which can | be used *only* to send a message to a user on a remote machine, and which | doesn't seem to be able to handle uucp paths.) Needless to say, this situation | makes it very difficult to use any mail handling system that tries to call a | single mailer for either local or remote email. | | Does anybody out there have a version of sendmail (or some reasonable facsimile | thereof) that would get around this problem? I haven't seen a version of sendmail that is easily ported to System-V. What we did instead (delirun is an RT running AIX 2.1.1) is port smail 2.5 as our back-end mailer, and elm 1.5 as our user mail interface. Both of these programs have been posted in the past to comp.sources{.unix}. This combination is *much* better than the mail/netmail split. -- -- Tim Olson Advanced Micro Devices (tim@delirun.amd.com)