Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wshb!michaelb
From: michaelb@wshb.UUCP ( WSHB Operations Eng)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Regarding earlier post on domains.
Summary: smail and sendmail. What is what?
Message-ID: <571@wshb.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 15:51:39 GMT
References: <75@dynasys.UUCP> <1163@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> <570@wshb.UUCP> <1990Mar11.224131.24230@uci.mn.org>
Organization: WSHB, Christian Science Mon. Synd., Cypress Creek, SC
Lines: 62

In article <1990Mar11.224131.24230@uci.mn.org>, clay@uci.mn.org (Clayton Haapala) writes:
> In article <570@wshb.UUCP> michaelb@wshb.UUCP ( WSHB Operations Eng) writes:
> >I currently have SCO XENIX 2.3.2 with the stock mail system. I can create
> ...
> >What I'm looking for , then, is advice on where to start moving us down the
> >correct road. If I need to replace the mail subsystem, which version is
> >available (for free) that understands domains and the uucp maps? What
> >other changes am I probably going to have to make in my system? Will I need
> >to add something besides uucp as a transport mechanism? If so, what?
> >
> >
> >Thakns for any advice.
> >
> >Michael
> 
> I'm Running Xenix 2.3.2 at home.  I use Elm for a mailer, and smail 2.5 for my
> transport, along with pathalias to understand uucp maps.  I also use Deliver,
> but that doesn't apply to your mail transport problems.  Smail understands
> bang paths, user@host paths, etc. etc.

First of all, thanks to everyone for the help. But I'm a bit more confused
now than I was before. I've gotten the sources for smail and looked at
the docs. I also got the sources for sendmail and looked at the docs.
There seems to be overlap in what they do. I noticed in the smail docs
that can work in conjunction with sendmail. Should I go to the trouble to
install both?

A couple of people have ask about the size and scope of my organization
and how much connectivity I'm looking for. My site is two 386 boxes
with SCO XENIX 2.3.2 with oly one box visible to the outside world.
Two more sites, one in Maine and one on Saipan in the Pacific, will
be converting from MS-DOS to XENIX in the next few months. I will connect
to both of these through uucp.

My corporate headquarters is a VAX cluster which I will be connecting
to with uucp as soon as they get VMS/UUCP up and running (4 weeks?) 
That VAX cluster may wind up connected to me over a leased line by the end 
of the year. It is also connected, via DECNET, to a cluster in 
Washington, D.C., a VAX in London, a VAX in Tokyo, and a couple of machines 
whose locations I don't know. 

Right now we have e-mail via DECNET amoung the VAXs with no outside 
connections. This all started as a project to get e-mail between 
my XENIX sites and the VAX cluster in Boston, all of them routing through me.
That is still the main goal. Some people on the VAXs are aware of my 
connections to the outside and want to start using them when we get rolling.

What I'm trying to avoid is having people from all over the organization 
ask me to convert everything to a bang path for them. I want a nice clean
system which follows all the standards. (And less of a nightmare when
I get a phone call telling me to convert to X.400 mail. Come to think
of it, maybe I should be planning to convert to X.400 first. Is anything,
commercial or free, available yet.) 

Does any of this change the nature of what I should be looking at?

Michael
-- 
Michael Batchelor--Systems/Operations Engineer #compliments and complaints
WSHB - An International Broadcast Station of   #...!uunet!wshb!letterbox
 The Christian Science Monitor Syndicate, Inc. #technical questions and reports
uunet!wshb!michaelb            +1 803 625 4880 #...!uunet!wshb!letterbox-tech