ejnihill@sactoh0.UUCP (Eric J. Nihill) (01/24/89)
I am looking to find a mail program that would allow
uucp only sites to run a "semi-smart" mailer. The program should
allow a user to send mail to a final destination with just
the entry foo!user. The mailer should be able to look at the
local systems L.sys or Systems ( yes, it must work on UNIX or
XENIX ) and determine if the system is connected to the final
destination. If not, send the mail upline to bar!foo!user to
be proccesed by the next system using the same program.
It should not be limited to one upline. It should be able to
forward to ray!bar!foo!user if nessary.
This is to be used on systems where disk space is a PREMIUM so
no space can be wasted on large maps, etc. The files will be
manually maintained. Eventually, the mail may wind up at a site
that maintains maps.
With the advent of many smaller systems running UNIX, the
large hard disk mailers are ineffective. There is no need to
connect to TCP, LAN, etc.
If the software can handle user@foo, all the better. If you
can use the @ key, be sure to tell, in the documents, how to
prevent the normal @ key action.
As always, the installation documentation should be well written.
It should be simple enough for a Hamster to understand. That means
EXAMPLES! How many installation documents have you read where the
only thing you understood was that the author was the only one who
knew what he/she was talking about?
Follow-up's on request.
In advance, thanks for your time and help;
Eric
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I suggest using one of the versions of smail.
I use smail on my home machine with smart-host pointing to "ukma"
and only the one entry for ukma in my paths file. Meaning that all
mail heads over to my smart-host. But it would be trivial to have
whatever subset of paths you need to be placed into the paths file,
including a nightly shell script which gets the neighbors listed
in L.sys (or Systems) and makes sure there are entries for them
in your paths file.
Note that I only have v2.5 and from what I've heard of v3.x it's
going to be much much much better.
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<-- Stop! Wait! I didn't mean to!wisner@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bill Wisner) (01/24/89)
Sounds like smail to me. David Herron: Smail 3.1 will be much better. Also much bigger. Oh, and by the way, if you want a self-guided tour, talk to ZUG.AI.MIT.EDU [18.26.0.247]'s SMTP port. (I'm sure I'll regret this when MIT's gateways start overloading..)