Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!unixhub!ditka!kls From: kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Mail--how does one set it up? Message-ID: <34280@ditka.Chicago.COM> Date: 4 Feb 91 11:04:41 GMT References: <1991Jan30.173551.4547@midway.uchicago.edu> <910202513@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> Sender: kls@ditka.chicago.com (Karl Swartz) Organization: Inaction Central, San Jose, California Lines: 38 In article <910202513@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) writes: >In article <1991Jan30.173551.4547@midway.uchicago.edu>, kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape) wrote: >> Can some kind soul tell me what to do to set up mail. >TRy installing W-MAIL (local mail agent), U-MAIL (smart mailer) and >UUCP/MINIX. Available from the plains.NoDak.edu server. I grabbed these late August for my pc532, which currently is running a port of PC Minix 1.3. After looking at U-MAIL I decided to use smail 2.5 instead, since that's what I already run on other machines, it does the job well, and it seemed fairly easy to install. The only changes required were: defs.h I punted the UNAME option and just compiled in the hostname. misc.c The #include should be surrounded by #ifdef UNAME. Also, tzname() doesn't exist so I hardware this in. I did install W-MAIL and UUCP. The former had a habit of injecting a blank line after the initial From_ line, effectively putting most of the header lines in the message body. The offending code was near the bottom of the deliver() routine. The UUCP, unfortunately, required a fair bit of work. While some of this was to add functionality of more mature uucps, several things were serious bugs, most notably an off-by-one in the NAK code that caused the entire connection to die after an error with WINDOWS > 1. I haven't done much with it recently but if this is still a current version and anybody is working on it I'd be happy to share all of my changes. -- Karl Swartz |INet kls@ditka.chicago.com 1-408/223-1308 |UUCP {uunet,decwrl}!daver!ditka!kls |Snail 1738 Deer Creek Ct., San Jose CA 95148 "It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw." (Calvin)