tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) (11/13/89)
Truth In Advertising Dept.: I would just like to point out to all satisfied and semi-satisfied Smail 2.5 customers who have been reading for months about the legendary Smail3, that -- despite the naming -- it is NOT an upgraded version of the familiar Smail 2.5. Instead it is a completely new program, vastly bigger and bearing no visible relationship to the existing Smail. In fact Smail3 should be called GNU Sendmail. I dunno why it's not. All Sendmail functionality is apparently built in, and the code is copylefted. Source is about 2 megs.(!) I point this out not because the new program will be bad, but because Smail 2.5 users waiting for a quiet upgrade tweaking a few favorite things have a big surprise coming. If there's something simple you want 2.5 to do that it doesn't do now, you might consider adding your own patch rather than waiting for 3.0 to fix everything. My own opinion is that for leaf sites with simple connectivity, Smail 2.5 plus Deliver 2.0 gives you everything you need. Smail 3 will be a boon for System V-ish Internet sites who had trouble with BSD sendmail. -- Canada -- a few acres of snow. ^v^v^ Tom Neff -- Voltaire v^v^v tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET
larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) (10/21/90)
We run smail3 release 1.5 here on nstar - which has been running fine for the last 9 months or so - but now we need to force the rerouting of all outbound mail based on OUR paths file (an outbound uucp over ip is broken and we need to reroute mail around this connection). How do I force all routing paths to be re-routed based on my paths file? please reply via mail... -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA {larry@nstar, uunet!sco!romed!nstar!larry, nstar!larry@ndmath.math.nd.edu} backbone usenet newsfeeds available Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-0282 (5 high speed lines)