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From: jbd@virgin.UUCP (J. Bruce Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: smail under Xenix: help?
Message-ID: <1698@virgin.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 03:40:15 GMT
References: <172@mkunix.DEC.COM> <10656@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: jbd@virgin.UUCP (Bruce Dawson)
Organization: Virgin Software, Ltd.
Lines: 28
Keywords: Xenix,SCO,blah,blah,blah
Summary: SCO mail doesn't appear to support set sendmail=...

In article <10656@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <172@mkunix.DEC.COM> tyager@mkunix.DEC.COM (Tom Yager) writes:
>
>| I'm having trouble with 'smail' under SCO Xenix '386. I compiled, installed
>| and have been using it for a few days. The problem is that it will not do
>| what I installed it to do, that is, resolve domain-style addresses and
>| route them to the proper uucp-accessible host.
>
>  smart-host doesn't work on my system, either, although I have the full

I have SCO 2.2.something running on a 286, and, although it looks a LOT like
UCB's mailx, it doesn't support the set {sendmail delivermail} options of
mailx. It would appear that SCO saw fit to removed this (rather necessary)
feature. Why? I don't know - unless there was a conflict with the micnet
software.

At any rate, it would "shor be nice" if SCO would put it in, or at least
some functional equivalent.

BTW: If you have a mailx running on SCO, then you would put:

	set sendmail=/usr/bin/smail

in your .mailrc file to get domain name translations. At least, I think this
would work - I don't have the real mailx on my SCO system!
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