Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!bungi.com!news From: mea@mea.utu.fi (Matti Aarnio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: Smail Message-ID: <9104201022.AA01606@mea.utu.fi> Date: 20 Apr 91 13:22:37 GMT References: <<9104182104.AA02528@musashi.wpd.sgi.com>> Sender: news@daver.bungi.com Lines: 33 Approved: news@daver.bungi.com > Hi, > I have been getting around to installing a mailer. Smail has a good > reputation, could someone(s) in the know answer these questions please. > > 1. To run under Minix I only need uucp support, would smail version 2.x > suffice ? Yes. > 2. If I was to install smail on my Sun workstation, could it replace > sendmail, or does it require sendmail to crack the headers (this > was the case with 2.3 or earlier I believe). 3.x can completely replace sendmail, but will work on UUCP as well. > 3. From people in the don't-know, version 3.x seems to add large support > for SMTP, is this the primary difference between 2.x and 3.x ?? It seems to be, altough it has support functions which are of formidable size themselves too. (Routing system for mail is reasonable in deed, not the best, but reasonable.) > 4. Where do I obtain version 2.5 of smail, uunet only seems to have 2.3, > and 3.19. Oh, there are many places. ux.acs.umn.edu: /pub/smail/smail2.5* nic.funet.fi: /pub/unix/mail/smail/smail2.5/* ( And of course I recommend UMN instead of FUNET server -- for non european sites anyway. ) > Thanks a lot if you can answer this, > Cheers, Des. /Matti Aarnio