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Article #5182Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart
From: Rich Salz
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1989 21:15
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1989 21:15
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In <2609@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes: >I strongly suggest that you -- anyone who wants control of how the Mail USer >Agent deals with things -- get ahold of a user agent with source code ... >Then you can control what it does. The source to the Berkeley Mail program (UCBMail, the basis for mailx, etc) is free of ATT code and is freely redistributable, as of the 4.3BSD-Tahoe release. You can get it from the FSF folks, or UUNET or -- if enough folks ask -- via comp.sources.unix. /rich $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart Message-ID: <1504@fig.bbn.com> Date: 20 Feb 89 21:15:41 GMT References: <885@ur-cc.UUCP> <888@ur-cc.UUCP> <2609@decuac.DEC.COM> Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation Lines: 15