paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) (11/14/89)
I am on process with upgrading from Xenix/386 to SCO Unix. New SCO Unix is using mmdf mail and this is more complication on setting up mail. I want to add smail from my Xenix/386 and I am not sure if it works but I don't want to mess up mailling system. What is the best way to test smail from my Unix mail? Also my bbs (akcs) is using smail in my Xenix. Please advice me.. Thanks in advance... willy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Willy Paine BBS/FAX +1-206-822-4615 % % willyp@seaeast.WA.COM FidoNet 1:343/15 % % uunet!nwnexus!seaeast!willyp fungus.dnet.dec.com!paine % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain % % why you did it wrong - Longfellow. % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell) (11/14/89)
In article <8911131934.AA09975@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: > > I am on process with upgrading from Xenix/386 to SCO Unix. New > SCO Unix is using mmdf mail and this is more complication on > setting up mail. I want to add smail from my Xenix/386 and I am > not sure if it works but I don't want to mess up mailling system. > What is the best way to test smail from my Unix mail? Also my > bbs (akcs) is using smail in my Xenix. I can't tell you exactly how I did it, but I did install smail 2.5 and elm on SCO Unix. I did have to rip out the mail that was there (good grief! what is that anyway?) and "borrow" the xenix local mailer (mail and execmail). Basically, I emulated the mail system as it's set up on Xenix and smail (and elm) were happy. -- Frank Bicknell UniSource; 1405 Main St, Ste 709; Sarasota, FL 34236 attctc!usource!frankb || frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US
chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) (11/15/89)
frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell) writes: >I can't tell you exactly how I did it, but I did install smail >2.5 and elm on SCO Unix. I did have to rip out the mail that >was there (good grief! what is that anyway?) and "borrow" the >xenix local mailer (mail and execmail). Basically, I emulated >the mail system as it's set up on Xenix and smail (and elm) were >happy. You might even consider junking "execmail". Given you are running smail2.5, execmail is required to implement two additional items: Micnet and local user delivery. Most sane, rational people don't care about micnet (one or two rational people do care, but most don't), and then that only leaves the issue of local user delivery. To do this, you could then install "lmail" or "deliver" and define this as your LMAIL in smail. (I can recommend "deliver" because I've used it. "lmail" should work but I don't have any experience with it.) Furthermore, it is a simple hack or two on smail's main procedure to recognize and promptly ignore any options mail(C) might pass to execmail, and you can install smail as /usr/lib/mail/execmail. I found that totally scrapping the SCO XENIX mail stuff (except for /usr/bin/mail) and using smail2.5, deliver, and Elm made for an extremely powerful, tight, little mail system. Locally, "vector" is running smail3 because the smtp capability is needed. But, I'm considering chucking smail3 from "chinacat" and dropping back to the above mail system. However, I only advocate doing this for SCO XENIX. I haven't played around with the SCO UNIX mail system. There are some folks out there who really do like "mmdf", and it might be a mistake to dump it without knowing what you've got. Any mmdf hackers care to comment? -- Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337 Someday the whole country will be one vast "Metroplex" - Zippy's friend Griffy ===> addr changes 11/22 to "chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG" (texbell!chinacat!chip)
paine@rust.dec.com (Willy Paine) (11/16/89)
In article <326@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US> you write: >In article <8911131934.AA09975@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: >> >I can't tell you exactly how I did it, but I did install smail >2.5 and elm on SCO Unix. I did have to rip out the mail that >was there (good grief! what is that anyway?) and "borrow" the >xenix local mailer (mail and execmail). Basically, I emulated >the mail system as it's set up on Xenix and smail (and elm) were >happy. >-- Thank you for your comments. I think I will do the same thing. I wish SCO would offer second version so called "lite" to get rid of unnessary files. All IRS and many government department are using MMDF. I was former system administrator for IRS and I did install MMDF there but I don't like this at all. I notice that Xenix Elm can not understand Unix mail spool and I have not got compiler for Unix yet. Thanks again.. willy -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Willy Paine BBS/FAX +1-206-822-4615 % % willyp@seaeast.WA.COM FidoNet 1:343/15 % % uunet!nwnexus!seaeast!willyp fungus.dnet.dec.com!paine % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain % % why you did it wrong - Longfellow. % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell) (11/16/89)
In article <8911151706.AA28015@decwrl.dec.com> paine@rust.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: > ... [ in reference to MMDF mail under SCO Unix ] > I wish SCO would offer second version so called "lite" to get rid > of unnessary files. Works Great! Less Filling (on the disk, that is :) ) I _like_ SCO Unix, but we little guys don't need it. Sure hope Xenix keeps plugging along or we get SCO Unix Lite (as alluded to above) which takes its place. -- Frank Bicknell UniSource; 1405 Main St, Ste 709; Sarasota, FL 34236 attctc!usource!frankb || frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US