Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: smail on Atari ST Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 22:38:00 GMT References: <10713@mirsa.inria.fr> <1991Apr09.184253.5423@edm.isac.CA> <1991Apr14.071306.3889@edm.isac.CA> Organization: St. Croix Valley C and Ski Lines: 23 [In article <1991Apr14.071306.3889@edm.isac.CA>, darius@edm.isac.CA (Darius S. Naqvi) writes ... ] > 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. No, Smail 3.x is definitely a fresh start. I'm not a 3.x guru, but as I understand it, it was intended as a replacement for Sendmail. Among other things, it handles multiple transportation methods, while Smail 2.x doesn't. > version. Where could I get the standard UNIX smail v2.5, i.e., the > version that was modified for TOS *minus* all the modifications? I'm afraid I don't know much about how to find Unix archives, but you could ask in the appropriate Unix newsgroup, comp.mail.uucp, or even comp.os.minix -- I wouldn't be surprised to find that somebody's already done the work for you. ---- Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org