kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape) (01/31/91)
Can some kind soul tell me what to do to set up mail. After I got the system walking---i.e. a weak form of running :-), I tried to send mail to some of the other "non-users" (they aren't getting *near* the system till things are satisfactory!), and their system mailboxes acquired some non-ASCII junk! The manual is strangely silent on the point of what is necessary to set up the mailer-deamon process and this may be the problem. In any case HELP! Thanks in advance, Kapil.
system@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org (System Eng.) (02/04/91)
In article <910202513@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>, waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) wrote: > In article <1991Jan30.173551.4547@midway.uchicago.edu>, kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape) wrote: >> Can some kind soul tell me what to do to set up mail. After I got > > Mail? Which mail? The defective /bin/mail that Peter Housel and I > wrote _ages_ ago? That shouldn't even _be_ in 1.5 :-( I totaly agree with Fred van Kempen on this point. I regenerated all my commands using stdio(3). And copied them all (including mail) to /usr/bin, /bin and /etc. Then I tried to use wmail (linked to mail). What then happened I will not describe :-( It took me about an hour to understand what had happened and copy wmail back to /usr/bin. > TRy installing W-MAIL (local mail agent), U-MAIL (smart mailer) and > UUCP/MINIX. Available from the plains.NoDak.edu server. Works fine here. Regards from Peter. Peter J. de Vrijer | UUCP: peter@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org Tel: +31 38 660735 | packet radio: peter@pa3ebv.ampr.org Ministerlaan 9 | 8014 PL Zwolle | "And yet I'm happy, The Netherlands | I can't figure it out." Snoopy
kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) (02/04/91)
In article <910202513@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) writes: >In article <1991Jan30.173551.4547@midway.uchicago.edu>, kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape) wrote: >> Can some kind soul tell me what to do to set up mail. >TRy installing W-MAIL (local mail agent), U-MAIL (smart mailer) and >UUCP/MINIX. Available from the plains.NoDak.edu server. I grabbed these late August for my pc532, which currently is running a port of PC Minix 1.3. After looking at U-MAIL I decided to use smail 2.5 instead, since that's what I already run on other machines, it does the job well, and it seemed fairly easy to install. The only changes required were: defs.h I punted the UNAME option and just compiled in the hostname. misc.c The #include <sys/utstime.h> should be surrounded by #ifdef UNAME. Also, tzname() doesn't exist so I hardware this in. I did install W-MAIL and UUCP. The former had a habit of injecting a blank line after the initial From_ line, effectively putting most of the header lines in the message body. The offending code was near the bottom of the deliver() routine. The UUCP, unfortunately, required a fair bit of work. While some of this was to add functionality of more mature uucps, several things were serious bugs, most notably an off-by-one in the NAK code that caused the entire connection to die after an error with WINDOWS > 1. I haven't done much with it recently but if this is still a current version and anybody is working on it I'd be happy to share all of my changes. -- Karl Swartz |INet kls@ditka.chicago.com 1-408/223-1308 |UUCP {uunet,decwrl}!daver!ditka!kls |Snail 1738 Deer Creek Ct., San Jose CA 95148 "It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw." (Calvin)