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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Smail
Message-ID: <856@bakerst.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 16:30:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: bakerst.856
Posted: Sun Aug 16 16:30:50 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Aug-87 05:10:46 EDT
References: <139@arnold.UUCP>
Reply-To: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Organization: I haven't a clew ..., Winston-Salem, NC
Lines: 38
Keywords: mail transports

In article <139@arnold.UUCP> dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes:
>Excuse my ignorance, but:
>
>What is Smail, what is sendmail, what is uumail, and why would anybody
>want to use them on the 7300?  Should I consider using one?
>I would like to be able to send mail, but have the uucp work involved
>queued, rather than having the system immediately contacted.  Do
>any of the above programs do that for me?


I've got smail running, and, yes, smail will do that for you 
all by its lonesome.  Sendmail is one of those things I dropped
after 3.5 because it seemed to be a culprit in some nasty crashes
I kept having.  I don't miss it - smail does everything I seem to
need.  I don't know anything about uumail.

In addition to queuing mail, one of the other nice things about 
smail is that it understands the login@site addresses, which is
very useful - assuming

   (a)	you have access to the usenet maps and can construct your
	own paths file for smail to use, OR

   (b)	you have access to someone else who has access to the usenet
	maps and who can construct a mail paths file for you for smail
	to use, OR

   (c)	you connect to a site that has a smart mailer and its own
	paths file and that can act as a "smart-host" and deliver the
	mail for you.

The queuing alone may be worth it, though.


Kathy Vincent                                     kathy@bakerst.UUCP
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