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Article #2395Re: Smail 2.5 and SCO Unix 3.2.2
From: Greg A. Woods
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 1990 21:34
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 1990 21:34
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In article <1CE00001.e5c4ky@tbomb.ice.com> time@tbomb.ice.com writes:
> In article <1990Dec04.130145.11290@usaos.uucp>, calhoun@usaos.uucp (Warren D. Calhoun) writes:
> > Or, just go with smail3. It has numerous advantages over smail2.5 (it's a
> > completely different animal), and compiles on SCO Unix 3.2.[012] MUCH easier
> > than mmdf. Combine this with something like ELM 2.3 and you have a powerful
> > setup.
>
> I agree. My mail feed just recently switched to smail3 and it appears
> to work *much* better than sendmail!
I'm not sure if this is relevant to the above, but I'd strongly
suggest that sendmail, mmdf, and smail-3 are all far too complex for
anyone not running in an SMTP environment. Smail-2.5, and perhaps
lmail-2.6 for local delivery, is more than sufficient as an MTA for
UUCP-only sites.
On the other hand, I will not dispute that smail-3 is superior to
sendmail (and perhaps mmdf).
As for MUA's, my preference is MUSH. Though the user-interface of ELM
is quite nice, the rest of it is a pain-in-the-butt (IMHO). The MUSH
user-interface can do near anything ELM can, is "programmable", and
can operate in three fundamental modes (line, curses, suntools).
--
Greg A. Woods
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!eci386!woods From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: Smail 2.5 and SCO Unix 3.2.2 Message-ID: <1990Dec9.213425.28580@eci386.uucp> Date: 9 Dec 90 21:34:25 GMT References: <1CE00001.e5c4ky@tbomb.ice.com> Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc. Lines: 28