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Article #52Re: Pathalias question
From: Bruce Becker
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 21:41
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 21:41
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In article <29E2E5E5.24F4@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes: |In article <1992Apr6.132842.25227@zooid.guild.org> | ross@zooid.UUCP (Ross Ridge) writes: | |clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes: |>>I'm confused... why are people using smail 2.5 (and soon a 2.7) when |>>smail 3.? is available ? |> |>Because smail 3.x is: |> |> a) a different program altogether |> b) *enormous* (comparatively speaking) |> c) vast overkill for uucp-only sites. | |Has anyone here used the mail routing system shipped in SvsVr4 (ie, |"mailsurr")? Is either "smail" necessary on an R4 system? Mailsurr has no uucp routing database facility, but it is easily added. The docs show how smail could be used for this (Appendix F of the System Admin. Guide). Smail 2.x must have been what they had in mind. The SysVr4 mailer is pretty nice - it is deceptively simple but it seems to be a reasonable mail system. A rumor that a version of it may get released in source code is going around... -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario a /i/ Internet: bdb@becker.gts.org Uucp: ...!lsuc!becker!bdb `\o\-e "James Brown, Mark Hosler, Al Jourgenson. _< /_ Coincidence or conspiracy?" - pashdown
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!robohack!becker!bdb From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) Newsgroups: ont.uucp Subject: Re: Pathalias question Message-ID: <140894@becker.UUCP> Date: 9 Apr 92 21:41:55 GMT References: <3369@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> <1992Apr6.132842.25227@zooid.guild.org> <29E2E5E5.24F4@telly.on.ca> Distribution: ont Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario Lines: 38