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From: system@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org (System Eng.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Mail--how does one set it up?
Message-ID: <910203416@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 4 Feb 91 03:10:19 GMT
References: <910202513@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
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In article <910202513@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>, waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) wrote:
> 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. After I got
> 
> Mail?  Which mail?  The defective /bin/mail that Peter Housel and I
> wrote _ages_ ago?  That shouldn't even _be_ in 1.5 :-(
I totaly agree with Fred van Kempen on this point. I regenerated all my 
commands using stdio(3). And copied them all (including mail) to /usr/bin, 
/bin and /etc.
Then I tried to use wmail (linked to mail). What then happened I will
not describe :-(
It took me about an hour to understand what had happened and copy wmail
back to /usr/bin.

> TRy installing W-MAIL (local mail agent), U-MAIL (smart mailer) and
> UUCP/MINIX.  Available from the plains.NoDak.edu server.
Works fine here.

Regards from Peter.

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