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From: jpp@slxsys.specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: smail2.5
Message-ID: <106@slxsys.specialix.co.uk>
Date: 3 Dec 87 06:44:07 GMT
References: <484@rel.eds.com>
Reply-To: jpp@slxsys.UUCP (John Pettitt)
Organization: Specialix International, London, UK.
Lines: 27
Keywords: At last, a 'real' mailer for Xenix (are you listening SCO) :-)
Summary: smail on xenix without writing new programs

In article <484@rel.eds.com> bob@rel.eds.com (Bob Leffler) writes:
>During the last several weeks there have been numerous solutions posted to
>the net to resolved the interface problem with Xenix and smail 2.5.  I
>have tried all the solutions that I am aware of and my conclusion for the
>best approach is a combination of two.

	lots of stuff about how to install smail deleted.

I have just installed smail 2.5 on Xenix 386.  The solution I used
here was to replace /usr/lib/mail/execmail with a link to (copy of)
/bin/smail.  I also moved the old sco execmail to execmail.sco and used
it as the local delivery agent.  The above will not work as it stands
because the command syntax for execmail is not the same as smail. This
can be corrected by swapping the meaning of the -F and -f switches in
smail (main.c and defs.h).   The local delivery macro in defs.h should
be set to give /usr/lib/mail/execmail.com -f from to.   With this
setup you get the sco mailer (mailx) and smail with both From and From:
lines correct.  Also as execmail is still used for 'local' delivery
micnet (sco's RS232 "LAN") still works.




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