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From: pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Patrick Pesch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: smail "front end" query
Message-ID: <838@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 22:19:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: seradg.838
Posted: Tue Oct 13 22:19:07 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Oct-87 21:44:03 EDT
Organization: SE-Retail Advanced Development, NCR Corp, Dayton
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Keywords: smail mailx Subject etc


	I have just got "smail up on my SCO Xenix system and have a question
	that somebody out there has probably encounterd.  Smail replaces
	/bin/mail with a small front end called svbinmail (for systems
	that do not have sendmail).  It moves the existing /bin/mail to
	/bin/lmail, and uses it only when READING mail.  /bin/smail and
	/bin/rmail (linked together) are used when sending mail.

	My problem is that the smail interface seems pretty primitive,
	compared to the Xenix mail that was there (mailx derivative).
	Can smail prompt for "Subject:, CC:", etc... as mailx does?  Does
	anyone know how this could be done without actually adding the
	features to smail (maybe using the existing mailer as a front end)?
	Would having "sendmail" help?

		Thanks in Advance,


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