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From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.2 PL10
Keywords: All mail is lost if /usr/spool is full !
Message-ID: <1113@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 17 Nov 89 20:07:06 GMT
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References: <91266@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1989Nov16.145450.14312@DSI.COM>
Reply-To: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
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In article <1989Nov16.145450.14312@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>However, no matter how major you feel it is, its a lower priority one on
>my books than the misaddressing problem
[the bug is that foo!bar@bax is handled wrong]

It's very, very tempting to fix this problem by totally ripping the
address resolution stuff out of Elm, and insisting upon an MTA which
can deal with it.  Maybe even bundle smail2.5 with Elm.

Actually, this isn't a half-crocked idea.  (All right, maybe it is
half-crocked, but it isn't *totally* crocked. :-)  I don't know if anybody
is maintaining smail2.5, but it most definately does have a future.
Although I run smail3 on "vector" (I use it's features heavily, especially
SMTP), for "chinacat" I will probably run smail2.5/deliver.  This gives
me all the capability I need at a fraction of the complexity.

-- 
Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
Someday the whole country will be one vast "Metroplex" - Zippy's friend Griffy
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