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From: david@actsn.fay.ar.us (David Summers)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: sendmail on SCO Xenix
Summary: Call our BBS (uafcseg.uark.edu) (130.184.64.202) (501-575-7280)
Keywords: sendmail tcp/ip xenix cf
Message-ID: <557@actsn.fay.ar.us>
Date: 29 Aug 90 16:42:51 GMT
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Organization: All Church Technical Service, Fayetteville, AR
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I got a version of Sendmail 5.61 + IDA 1.3.4 last February (?) to work with
Xenix, and have been advertising it off and on since then.  With the IDA
config file it is fairly easy to configure with the m4 macro processing package.
I put this on our BBS (shown above in the "Summary:".  I have found out that the
config file STILL does not work "right" (or at least do what I want) and I got
tired of messing with it (after three years(!?)) and I've read that it isn't
POSSIBLE to be completely correct when acting as gateway between the Internet
and UUCP because there are no STANDARDS...just suggestions, and everyone picks
one that suits them.  Also there may be SEMANTIC differences between routes and
domain addresses so it MAY not even be possible to have a completely correct
config file.   Arrrgggghhh!

Anyway, last night I finally got around to compiling SMAIL 3.1.19 and boy is it
nice!  Readable config files!  Wow!  It compiled with only one hitch.  It tried
to compile pathalias in the "pd" directory (I think) with a MEMSET constant that
was already declared or maybe it was incorrect return type or something...I
forget.   But since that file is not REQUIRED then everything compiled 
BEAUTIFULLY, the first time and I seem to be running it with no problems right
now.  I'm working on beginning to understand the configuration files but that
should be no problem as everything seems very well documented.

  In summary, I'm well pleased with SMAIL 3 and suggest to everyone that if
you have the chance, TRY IT!  (I haven't tried it on the INTERNET yet, just
a Xenix system with UUCP).

Hats off to the SMAIL 3 designers/implementors!  Thanks!

   - David Summers
-- 
I'm sick and tired of this machine, I wish that I could sell it.
It never does just what I want, but only what I tell it!
- David Summers (david@actsn.fay.ar.us)