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In article <104@mosh.UUCP> rolff@mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff) writes:
> The current version of smail is 3.1.18 and I think it will cover
> your needs. To get a copy, write to the author tron%tolsoft@uunet.uu.net
> (Ron Karr).

Note that SMAIL 3.1 has some bugs. Compare the following messages, one
sent to a machine running smail 3.1, and one sent to a machine running
smail 2.5. The identical message was sent around the loop ficc-sugar-texbell
both ways. The original message looked like:

| From peter Wed Dec 13 13:11:20 1989 remote from ficc
| >From peter Wed Dec 13 13:11:20
| Subject: Screen Doors

Sent via texbell, it became:

| From sugar!texbell!Postmaster Wed Dec 13 16:16:32 1989
| Received: by sugar.hackercorp.com (smail2.5)
| 	id AA07661; 13 Dec 89 17:07:18 CST (Wed)
| Received: by texbell.swbt.com (Smail3.1)
| 	id <m0gbf6P-0000E2C@texbell>; Wed, 13 Dec 89 13:57 CST
| Message-Id: <m0gbf6P-0000E2C@texbell>
| Apparently-From: Postmaster
| To: sugar!texbell!ficc!peter texbell!sugar!ficc!peter
| Subject: Screen Doors
| Date: Wed Dec 13 13:11:20 1989
| Status: RO

Sent via sugar, it became:

| From texbell!sugar!ficc!peter Wed Dec 13 16:07:27 1989
| Received: by texbell.swbt.com (Smail3.1)
| 	id <m0gbgwH-0000dkC@texbell>; Wed, 13 Dec 89 15:55 CST
| Message-Id: <m0gbgwH-0000dkC@texbell>
| Apparently-From: texbell!sugar!ficc!peter
| Received: by sugar.hackercorp.com (smail2.5)
| 	id AA06788; 13 Dec 89 14:13:24 CST (Wed)
| To: sugar!texbell!ficc!peter texbell!sugar!ficc!peter
| Subject: Screen Doors
| Date: Wed Dec 13 13:11:20 1989
| Status: RO

Both machines correctly inserted the date, but smail 3.1 lost the From_ line.
While this isn't RFC822, it's what Version 2 UUCP generates. It should be
handled by smail.

You might want to look into sticking with 2.5 for a while, especially if
you have some old Xenix or version 7 UNIX sites.
-- 
`-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>.
 'U`  Also <peter@ficc.lonestar.org> or <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>.
"It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier
and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com