edward@ukecc.uky.csnet (Edward C. Bennett) (12/09/86)
Has anyone out there installed smail on a PDP-11 running BSD2.9? Do I have to use sendmail? (All I want to do is forward everything to our MMDF machine.) What about the no-pathalias-on-16-bit-machines problem? Well, I needed something to do over Christmas ;-) -- Edward C. Bennett UUCP: cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward CSNET: edward@engr.uky.csnet "Goodnight M.A." BITNET: edward@ukma.BITNET Man created God in his own image, not the other way around.
campbell@maynard.UUCP (12/10/86)
In article <912@ukecc.uky.csnet> edward@ukecc.uky.csnet (Edward C. Bennett) writes: >Has anyone out there installed smail on a PDP-11 running BSD2.9? Do I have >to use sendmail? (All I want to do is forward everything to our MMDF machine.) >What about the no-pathalias-on-16-bit-machines problem? Reasonable facsimile: I have installed smail on a DEC Rainbow running VENIX/86 (a V7 port). I had to fix a couple of bugs, nothing major. If there's any interest I can post the patches -- I've already sent them to the smail maintainers. Forwarding: I installed the smail patch from National Semiconductor that allows you to specify a "forwarding-relay" host to which all mail with unresolvable addresses is forwarded. Works great. 16-bit pathalias problem: I have a version of pathalias converted to use a temp file instead of memory for the link database. It is ridiculously slow, but it does work on my little Rainbow. It takes about ten hours now to crunch the whole uucp map. If there's interest, I'll post the thing. (I didn't write the modifications, but the person who did indicated that he doesn't have time to post it, respond to bug reports, etc.) -- Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc. Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109 uucp: {alliant,wjh12}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846 ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvisr.harvard.edu MCI: LCAMPBELL