Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!matrox!uvm-gen!banzai!jay From: jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: % in path Message-ID: <1991May17.163840.16199@banzai.PCC.COM> Date: 17 May 91 16:38:40 GMT References: <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> <1991May06.141547.19963@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991May7.144508.13536@mccc.edu> <1991May09.150915.1048@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: The People's Computer Company, Williston, VT Lines: 28 les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >In article <1991May7.144508.13536@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: >>=operators left. In this case mccc.edu has to handle it. I would >>=suggest switching to smail3.x at least on your gateway machine since >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> Aw, Les -- that's a lot more work, isn't it? >It's big, but not really difficult to install if you just want the default >setup. It runs out-of-the box on SysV without the usual contortions too. >It has been very reliable for me - it can even restart deliveries correctly >where part of a list of addresses failed due to configuration or resource >errors. We run Smail3.x on two AT&T 386 boxes and an RS/6000, all on a lan, which talk to scads of client sites via uucp. Our upstream also MX's for us. Compiling smail to handle all of this was very simple. It compiled very straightforwardly. Since the sendmail that came with our 386 boxes was buggy (couldn't handle long alias lists), we didn't have much choice. I looked at IDA sendmail and decided that I'd been looking at sendmail.cf files for years and still didn't feel that I had a good grip on them. Smail-3.1 was the right choice for us. We had outgrown Smail-2.5's capabilities, and needed something that would work over an ethernet (when our vendor didn't have a uucpd, and many attempts to come up with one failed). -- Jay Schuster uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay, attmail!banzai!jay The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming'