joachim@incom.incom.de (Joachim Riedel) (04/03/91)
rose@galtee.cs.wisc.edu (Edwin Meese) writes: This is a followup. I hope it will arrive at comp.os.misc and not be mailed to Scott (sorry, I often want to followup but do a reply) >> I'd also like to hear from anyone who's using this software-- especially as >> to the problems/success you've had with it. I'm probably not alone in my >> curiousity, so it would probaly be worth posting replies to this group. >> I use SMAIL 2.5 as a remote mailer, WMAIL 3.63 as Mailer and COM 1.27 as mail reader. >I have three observations on smail. >1.) You get double headers on incoming mail, since both smail and > coherent's mail insert their own header. >2.) smail's default set up calls lmail for local mail delivery which which is incompatiable with coherent's mail which has to be called > as rmail. You have to change the #define LMAIL in defs.h to call coherent's mail as rmail, but since smail installs a link between > /bin/smail and /bin/rmail, the LMAIL rmail has to be in a different > directory. >3.) I haven't been able to get smail bounch 'undeliverable' or > 'unknown user', or whatever the error message is, back to > the sender when an error happens. Has anyone on the list been > able to get this to work? Points 1 - 2 are solved if you use WMAIL 3.63. It's often posted in comp.os.minix, should be available at any MINIX_Server and needs about 30 Minutes to port to Coherent. (20 Minutes for the SHAR-File and 10 Minutes for the source). WMAIL is an excellent mailer with a binary about 35 KB. 3.) Sorry, have same problems. Undeliverable Mail disappears. Joachim (replies to joachim@jrix.radig.de)