Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!codas!ateng!chip 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 Lines: 53 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" A T Engineering My employer's opinions are not mine, but these are. "Gentlemen, your work today has been outstanding. I intend to recommend you all for promotion -- in whatever fleet we end up serving." - JTK