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Installing smail3.1.26 on SVR4

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From: Joe Kelsey
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:40
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I just installed smail3.1.26 on ESIX SVR4.0.4.  I installed it using the
``natural'' edits to the EDITME file (os=sys5.4, etc.)  I did not install it
in /usr/bin/sendmail, since SVR4 does not, by default, include sendmail there.
In fact, SVR4 includes the sendmail configuration in /usr/ucblib, but does not
document how to actually use it.  Rather than even trying to fool around with
the stuff in /usr/ucblib, I let smail install itself in /usr/local/bin/smail
and also let it install itself as /bin/rmail.  Now, remote mail received via
uucp comes in correctly through smail, but local messages don't.  In order to
force /bin/mail to send everything to smail I replaced the default mailsurr
file (in /etc/mail/mailsurr) with the following one line file:

'(.+)'	'(.+)'	'< /usr/local/bin/smail -em -i \\2'

Voila!  /bin/mail sends everything to smail and I didn't have to fool around
with the LMAIL stuff or anything.  In fact, I could probably restore
/bin/rmail.SAV into /bin/rmail and let rmail forward everything to smail...an
experiment for the future?

Since I don't have an ethernet connection, I don't know the details of
replacing the smtpd entry in the network startup, but it probably doesn't
involve much more than editing an rc file somewhere...

/Joe
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nwnexus!mdisea!kelsey
From: kelsey@mdd.comm.mot.com (Joe Kelsey)
Subject: Installing smail3.1.26 on SVR4
Message-ID: <1992Aug27.224045.24075@mdd.comm.mot.com>
Summary: mailsurr file for SVR4 and smail3.1.26
Keywords: mailsurr SVR4 smail3.1.26
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Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:40:45 GMT
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