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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: How to make mail forward unresolved local mail to uucp host?
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.190346.22638@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 3 Jan 91 19:03:46 GMT
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Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1048@gdc.portal.com> lee@gdc.portal.com (Seng-Poh Lee, (203) 758-1811 Ext 7728) writes:

>However, even if I could get this to work, the price seems to be too great. The
>smail mail interface doesn't have all the nifty ~ commands that the Xenix
>mailer has. Does anyone know if Smail 3.0 or ELM have a better mail interface?

You aren't supposed to interact directly with smail (either 2.5 or 3.1).
In a sysV environment you would typically move /bin/mail to /bin/lmail,
install smail as /bin/rmail, and install a small front-end program as
/bin/mail to look at the command line arguments and decide whether you
want to send mail or read it, and invoke the appropriate program.  You
would normally use mailx or ELM to read and compose mail and those programs
should be configured to run /bin/rmail (now smail) to deliver your
messages.  Xenix is a bit different, but there should be some discussion
of the setup in the smail distribution, along with the mail front end
program.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us