Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!tolsoft!tron
From: tron@tolerant.com (Ron Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Configuring smail transports
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.125618.1712@tolerant.com>
Date: 22 Jul 90 12:56:18 GMT
References: <1990Jul13.223745.24604@supernet.UUCP> <1990Jul19.171942.24780@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: tron@tolsoft.UUCP (Ron Karr,,439,)
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In article <1990Jul19.171942.24780@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
 >You may want to pick up 3.18 somewhere.  It's on uunet as smail3.1.19.Z
 >(oddly enough).

Time for a Smail3 taxonomy lesson, I suppose.  Here are the versions that
people are most likely to read about:

3.1.17:  A release that restructured major parts of the source code and
	 was a fairly extensive cleanup of the previous releases.  If
	 you are running this, then you should be in good a shape, or
	 in as good a shape as currently available Smail3 releases will
	 put you.

3.1.18:  This includes a fix that affects systems where fopen(foo, "a")
	 does not set the O_APPEND flag.  This is the only interesting
	 thing fixed in the 3.1.18.1 release.

3.1.19:  This is the release that is available on uunet.  The only
	 difference between the 3.1.18 release and this release is the
	 addition of a new README file, and a new samples/bigsite
	 directory.  I didn't change the actually release number in the
	 source because the smail3 release build area was scattered
	 around too much, so I wasn't in a position to update any of
	 the files under source control.  Given this, I did not want
	 the release to include any changes to existing files, including
	 the files that define the release number.  This was quite
	 probably a mistake, since it is confusing.

3.2:	 This refers to a mythical release which is what I really want
	 to release to the world.  Since I determined that I would not
	 have the time to complete this, I gave the primary tasks for
	 completing this to someone else.

Class is over for today.
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