Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!ncc!isagate!darius From: darius@edm.isac.CA (Darius S. Naqvi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: smail on Atari ST Message-ID: <1991Apr14.071306.3889@edm.isac.CA> Date: 14 Apr 91 07:13:06 GMT References: <10713@mirsa.inria.fr> <1991Apr09.184253.5423@edm.isac.CA> Reply-To: darius@edm.isac.ca (Darius S. Naqvi) Organization: ISA Corporation, Edmonton, AB Lines: 55 In article steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: >[In article <1991Apr09.184253.5423@edm.isac.CA>, > darius@edm.isac.CA (Darius S. Naqvi) writes ... ] > >> Is this the Smail that we all know and love that runs on UNIX boxes, >> i.e. the mail delivery agent? If it is, then it's covered by the GNU >> copyleft, so any version should be freely distributable. > >The program is Smail 2.5, originally by Christopher Seiwald. It accepts >data from standard input, processes the headers as necessary, looks up a >mailpath, and pipes the result to either a local delivery agent (lmail) or >to uux for execution of rmail on a remote machine. > >The Smail source code that I have bears neither copyright nor copyleft. >Smail 3.x, which is a different program entirely, may be covered by the >GNU agreement. I don't know. > Information in the files README-3.1.19 and COPYING from the distribution for smail 3.1.19 names Landon Curt Noll and Ronald S. Karr as the authors, and places it under the GNU General Public License, which more or less says that all versions based on this version are free and must be distributed with source code, with no charge other than a nominal charge for making copies. (This is what I was talking about when I mentioned the ``GNU Copyleft''.) Possibly what happened is that the above two people took smail 2.5 (or some other version) and modified it a lot, and then placed the whole thing under the Gnu Copyleft. > >> I'd be interested in using this as the mail delivery agent when >> running MINIX, as soon as I get UUCP for MINIX working properly. > >I think that for Minix you should compile the standard Unix Smail. > Assuming that my guess above is correct, that would be a good idea. I like smail 3.1.19, but it would probably take up too many resources for minix (i.e., ram, disk space, cpu cycles). If smail 2.5 is more or less the same thing with fewer features (hence smaller, less cpu intensive, etc.) it would be worth a try. The only problem is that I assume that any archive sites with UNIX smail will have the latest 3.x version. Where could I get the standard UNIX smail v2.5, i.e., the version that was modified for TOS *minus* all the modifications? >---- > Steve Yelvington / P. O. Box 38 / Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047 USA > INTERNET: steve@thelake.mn.org UUCP: plains!umn-cs!thelake!steve > GEnie: S.YELVINGTO2 Delphi: YELVINGTON -- Darius S. Naqvi mail:darius@edm.isac.ca ISA Corp. uucp:{uunet,alberta}!ncc!isagate!darius Edmonton, Alberta, Canada phone:(403) 420-8081