Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!jim From: jim@tct.uucp (Jim Kunzman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: MAIL TO INTERACTIVE Message-ID: <27E4D211.5B78@tct.uucp> Date: 18 Mar 91 14:43:29 GMT References: <1991Mar09.005756.10381@ism.isc.com> <1991Mar10.165108.8145@pegasus.com> <1991Mar12.203919.3667@bluemoon.uucp> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 43 According to grant@bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean): >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. Hmmm, a recent article in UNIX World stated that 80% of all installed 80x86 systems were SCO UNIX systems. Given that, and the fact that 80% of all commp.unix.sysv386 problem/bug reports are with ISC UNIX :-(, you might rethink your position! Judging by the traffic here, either ISC UNIX has a lot of problems, poor support and/or documentation, or a huge newbee base. :-) Perhaps a separate ISC newsgroup IS needed to reduce the noise level for non-ISC users. :-^) -- Jim Kunzman at Teltronics/TCT , !(This space intentionally left blank.)