Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!texbell!vector!chip From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: smail on Xenix 2.3.2 Message-ID: <1122@vector.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 26 Nov 89 01:01:27 GMT References: <4043@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> Reply-To: chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal) Organization: Dallas Semiconductor Lines: 27 In article <4043@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.UUCP (Jeff Holmes) writes: > The part that confuses me is in the Install instructions. Throw the instructions in the crapper. They are useless. The XENIX mail configuration is totally different. The whole key is that under XENIX, the mailing is done by /usr/lib/mail/execmail. At least it is once you've entered "set execmail" in your /usr/lib/mailrc (which you *do* want to do for this). From there there are two choices: 1) Install a fake "execmail" which redirects the message into smail. There are some patches in the comp.sources.misc archives which make smail work with xenix and include the fake execmail. Be careful, there are several revs in the archives. Get the latest. 2) My preference is to patch smail that it may be installed as /usr/lib/mail/execmail. You can then throw execmail in the crapper with the smail installation instructions. :-) However, with this approach you lose Micnet support (yawn). I'd be glad to send out a copy of this patch. -- Chip Rosenthal /// chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG /// texbell!chinacat!chip ===> By the time you receive this, will be inactive. ===> Please send replies to .