Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: using Path: for mail replies Message-ID: <70@volition.dec.com> Date: 22 Aug 88 06:06:07 GMT References: <676@bacchus.dec.com> <881@vsi1.uucp> <10135@e.ms.uky.edu> <60@minya.uucp> <8528@swan.ulowell.edu> <879@ncrcan.toronto.ncr.com> <63@volition.dec.com>Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 38 Eric, I _was_ feeling a bit elitist when I posted that note, and on reflection I think I should have put a "half :-)" on my proposal to make Path: lines look less like mail paths. There is no disk space requirement for smail, other than for the sources and the binary. (And if you have room for the netnews software, smail is peanuts in comparison -- which is why you are able to consider bundling it with TMN.) Smail is able to run without a database. Or, rather, with a truncated database: smart-host uunet!%s This assumes that you are one hop from uunet and want to use it to route your outgoing UUCP mail. You could, in your case, say: smart-host vu-vlsi!rutgers!%s Note that the "-" in smart-host may or may not be correct, I don't use it here since I have a full database. Check the smail docs. Registering in the u.* files costs nothing; smail is available for free; you don't need a full database, or a 32-bit machine to run pathalias since you don't need to run pathalias; smail will run on SysV or SysIII or BSD, and probably V7 and Xenix. I don't see that I'm asking anything unreasonable. I hope that you do bundle smail with TMN; it's small, and TMN can then assume its existence. Make sure that smail is only optionally installed, since many sites will already have smail or something equivilent and won't want to have to edit the TMN Makefile to keep their MTAs from being overwritten. -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013