Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!heiby
From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Posting for the rest of us
Message-ID: <7828@mcdchg.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 88 20:23:21 GMT
References: <1596@looking.UUCP> <3249@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer, Schaumburg, IL
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Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU) writes:
> Anybody have a good, public domain replacement that is easily
> configured, can deal with domains, has mail alias support, can
> deliver local mail with the appropriate mailbox locking, and can
> read a pathalias generated path list to get out to the UUCP network?

Ever hear of "smail"?  I've been using it for a couple of years.  Now
at version 2.5, it is available from the various comp.sources.unix
archives.  I am running on a fairly vanilla SVR3 machine.  I found it
easy to configure.  It can deal with domain addresses.  It has mail
alias support.  It uses the original /bin/mail to deliver local mail.
It can read a pathalias generated path list to determine "optimal"
routing.  The current version does not directly support alternate
mailers (as far as I can tell).  All my mail is either local delivery
or gets passed to uux.  There is information in the installation
docs for installing it in a "sendmail" environment.  I did that
once.  I found that sendmail wasn't buying me anything.  My LAN
understands uux/uucico transfers just fine.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
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