Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!n8emr!bluemoon!grant From: grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: MAIL TO INTERACTIVE Message-ID: <1991Mar12.203919.3667@bluemoon.uucp> Date: 12 Mar 91 20:39:19 GMT References: <1991Mar05.183157.4020@ism.isc.com> <1991Mar7.102132.15620@robobar.co.uk> <1991Mar09.005756.10381@ism.isc.com> <1991Mar10.165108.8145@pegasus.com> Organization: Blue Moon BBS (614/868-9984 = T2500 | 998[02] = HST DS) Lines: 33 richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes: >>ISC uses sendmail. Sendmail does support the return receipt, however, >>most user level mail programs that make and send your message do not. The sendmail ISC supplied (at least the one I got from them with 2.2) was brain dead. It spawned several copies of itself daily, none of which would go away and after a couple of days crash the system. Thankfully, smail 3.1 is around... >Since ISC's mailx has some really nasty bugs (at least in 2.0.2), I'd >imagine that many sites have installed replacement mailers like elm, >mush, etc. I think most of these will actually allow you to edit the >header fairly easily (unlike mailx). The mailx with 2.2 was OK (as OK as mailx gets...). It doesn't hurt to install ELM anyway, much nicer. :-} >Just so people here don't get the wrong idea, here's one vote that >says Ten Plus isn't worth the price of the floppies they ship it on. >Just my opinion but, what a waste of time. Too bad you can't return >junk software like you can junk books. I'll second that vote. I know at least 3 other folks who agree too (we don't even install it anymore). Hmm, I just realized this is a sort of negative post. It isn't meant that way, I really think ISC is the best game in town at this time. -- Grant DeLorean (grant@bluemoon) {n8emr|nstar}!bluemoon!grant "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating