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Subject: Re: uumail sources submitted
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Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 04:24:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  1 04:24:47 1986
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Reply-To: sob@cortex.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Organization: Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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In article <212@dopey.AMD.COM> jimb@dopey.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
>
>It's a pity that
>there is so much duplication of effort on this task. The beta version of
>smail (not distributed yet, don't ask) also understands smart routing
>hosts, also.  The two programs are tracking very closely now.
>
This is true for the moment. When I was working on the next release of
uumail, I made a decision to become RFC 976 compliant before adding any
other features. This accounts for the similiarity in the programs. I
doubt the next release of uumail will look as similiar.

>I guess competition is healthy.

I don't consider it competition. If I did, I would not have used the smail
code in uumail [Mark Horton and the UUCP Project were kind enough to allow
me to use it]. Since both smail and uumail do the same type of processing
to be RFC 976 compliant, I will be tracking them in this so I don't reinvent
the wheel and arguements about approaches to solving this problem will
result in uniform changes (unless someone else writes and distributes yet
another mailer).

However, uumail will not be tracking smail in other areas. I hope that uumail
will become more of a full featured mailer handling header processing
and such. Your suggestions are always welcome.


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Barber       CIS:71565,623   BBS:(713)790-9004               noone else's.