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 Lines: 22 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 "I believe in the Tooth Fairy." "I believe in Santa Claus." "I believe in the future of the Space Program."