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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Smail3 (was Re: local addresses with smail 2.5)
Summary: not an upgrade
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Date: 13 Nov 89 03:51:22 GMT
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Truth In Advertising Dept.:

I would just like to point out to all satisfied and semi-satisfied Smail
2.5 customers who have been reading for months about the legendary
Smail3, that -- despite the naming -- it is NOT an upgraded version of
the familiar Smail 2.5.  Instead it is a completely new program, vastly
bigger and bearing no visible relationship to the existing Smail.

In fact Smail3 should be called GNU Sendmail.  I dunno why it's not.
All Sendmail functionality is apparently built in, and the code is
copylefted.  Source is about 2 megs.(!)

I point this out not because the new program will be bad, but because
Smail 2.5 users waiting for a quiet upgrade tweaking a few favorite
things have a big surprise coming.  If there's something simple you
want 2.5 to do that it doesn't do now, you might consider adding your
own patch rather than waiting for 3.0 to fix everything.

My own opinion is that for leaf sites with simple connectivity, Smail 2.5
plus Deliver 2.0 gives you everything you need.  Smail 3 will be a boon
for System V-ish Internet sites who had trouble with BSD sendmail.

-- 
Canada -- a few acres of snow.    ^v^v^    Tom Neff
                 -- Voltaire      v^v^v    tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET