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From: tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson)
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Subject: Re: Mail on the RT
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Date: 15 Jul 88 19:05:37 GMT
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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.
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	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@delirun.amd.com)