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Article #4871

Re: Xenix Mail User Interfaces

#4871
From: Mike Johnston
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1988 18:57
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In article <30700001@urbsdc> darrell@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
>Smail is intended to be a mail delivery agent, not a mail user
>interface.  Typically smail is called from some other mailer such as
>sendmail to cause the mail to be delivered via uucp.  You will still
>want to have some other mail program as your user interface.  I'm not
>familiar with how mail works on Xenix but if you use sendmail then you
>should be able to modify your sendmail.cf.  Otherwise, if you have
>source you may need to modify your mail program to use smail.

This much I have learned recently. I have an Altos version of xenix which
apparently uses a program called "execmail" which I think I similar to
"sendmail". Smail doesn't know about this though so I am hard pressed to
figure out how to modify it to recognize that it must itervene on execmail's
behalf and send the mail whilee still giveing me the interface of the standard
/usr/bin/mail program.

Does anyone know how to correct this?

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From: mikej@dasys1.UUCP (Mike Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Xenix Mail User Interfaces
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Date: 15 Jul 88 18:57:06 GMT
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