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From: ghost@robecdc.UUCP (William Sneed)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Xenix Mail
Keywords: Xenix, Mail, Tandy
Message-ID: <8@robecdc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 90 12:57:22 GMT
References: <102@rwing.UUCP>
Reply-To: ghost@robecdc.UUCP (William Sneed)
Organization: Robec Distributors Inc., D.C. Office
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In article <102@rwing.UUCP> nanook@rwing.UUCP (Robert Dinse) writes:
>     I have a Tandy 6000 running Tandy's bizzare version of Xenix 3.02.00.
>I would appreciate any help in understanding how mail works on this system,
>     I have smail and am trying to figure out how to interface it properly
>with this version of Xenix. 

Having just recently done this I can commiserate with you. What you are looking
at is an SCO product. Beyond mail and rmail, I've never seen the others do
mush unless 'set execmail' is in /usr/lib/mail/mailrc or in $HOME/.mailrc.
then mail calls execmail which then may call mail.local, or ... (begin to see
the darkness at the end of the tunnel). These provide the tags into micnet
and (with additional programs) xenix-net. If you have Smail 2.5 apply Chip's
xenix patches (Chip, which Chip, him Chip, who Chip) and all is well with
the world. Smail will handle everything on the other end of UUCP, and
execmail will retain all of the original versitility of its original design.