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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: smail2.5
Message-ID: <113@ateng.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 14:33:44 EST
Article-I.D.: ateng.113
Posted: Tue Dec  1 14:33:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 06:09:22 EST
References: <484@rel.eds.com>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <484@rel.eds.com> bob@rel.eds.com (Bob Leffler) writes:
>
>Chip Salzenburg (chip@ateng) had an idea to substitute smail for SCO's
		 ^That's me^
>execmail.  The first step was to "set execmail" in /usr/lib/mail/mailrc.
>Then substitute Chip's execmail replacement for the real execmail.
>He also used SCO's execmail for the local mailer.

     [Note that execmail is renamed, and this renamed execmail is
      used by smail for local mail.]

>The main advantage here was that you could now use domain style addressing
>from within SCO's mailer.

Bob omits two other advantages of my solution:

    1.  The standard Xenix aliasing mechanism works, including
	pipe aliases such as `rnews: |/u/news/uurec'.
	(I have SENDMAIL undefined, so I have two alias files;
	Xenix aliases cannot be `@' addresses.)

    2.  Xenix-net (micnet) mail works.  ("machine:user")
        The `mail.local' program is only for local mail; there is a
	separate program `mail.cln' for colon addresses.
        Execmail calls one or the other.

>However, I still encounter one small problem.
>The From: address was the process name  (typically uucp) not the address
>of the sender. This was caused by using execmail as the local mailer.

My system does _not_ have this problem!  Here is a sample header:

	From major!nix Tue Dec  1 12:54:22 1987
	Received: by ateng.UUCP (smail2.5)
		id AA00212; 1 Dec 87 12:54:14 EST (Tue)
	Received: by major.UUCP (smail2.5)
		id AA00214; 1 Dec 87 12:51:40 EST (Tue)
	To: topedit
	Date: Tue, 1 Dec 87 12:51:38 EST
	Subject: Richard Stuer phone call
	Cc: nix
	X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5]
	Message-Id: <8712011251.AA00214@major.UUCP>
	From: nix@major.UUCP (Nixdorf Proj Admin)

(BTW, `topedit' is an alias that includes me.)

I will be posting relevant files in a separate article.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg         "chip@ateng.UUCP"  or  "{codas,uunet}!ateng!chip"
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