sources-request@panda.UUCP (03/01/86)
Mod.sources: Volume 4, Issue 4
Submitted by: hplabs!hpcnou!dat (Dave Taylor)
Following this message will be SEVEN 'shar' files containing the source to
the MSG mail system.
MSG is a screen-oriented mail system for Bell and Berkeley systems and
replaces "mailx" and "mail" (and "mh", but that's a different story).
It self-configures on mail transports and currently supports both 'sendmail'
and 'rmail', according to which is available.
It also uses the pathalias database, if available on the local machine.
[ - a few notes from the moderator
I was able to compile this system for Berkeley 4.2 (Actually ULTRIX)
with a couple of changes to the Makefiles: "msg" must be linked with
-lcurses in addition to -ltermcap, the Makefile in the subdirectory "src"
does not have an appropriate default target (the order in the makefile
seems to be wrong), and the Makefile in the main directory appears to
be wrong when it attempts to build the "msg" task in the "src" subdirectory
(it attempts to make "msg", while the Makefile in "src" only knows about
"../bin/msg" - the two don't match). Berkeley users need to add the
line "DEFINE=-DBSD" to the Makefiles, anyway.
Also, many Berkeley derived systems may not have the "mm" nroff macro
package. The two documents Config.guide and Msg.guide are written using
mm. (Our system has the mm macros, but the page numbers formatted
quite strangely - must be a difference in the System V vs. Berkeley
nroff's.) If there is sufficient demand, I will post these two documents
pre-formatted in a later posting.
Also, I was not able to get utils/fastmail.c to compile properly on
BSD4.2 (_tzname not found during link), but that seems to be a relatively
unimportant problem.
John P. Nelson, Moderator, mod.sources
(decvax!genrad!panda!jpn seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!jpn)
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