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From: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail "front end" query
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 17:44:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 17:44:29 1987
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pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Patrick Pesch):

> 	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 [...]

It's been a while since I've used SCO, so I'm a bit hazy on the exact mail
situation there. Try the following, though.

Restore the system to its normal setup -- mail in /bin/mail, the original
rmail in /bin/rmail. Remove links to smail, leaving only /bin/smail behind.
Forget svbinmail exists for now.

Use the 'standard' mail program to send a long message to someone. Maybe
something from comp.sources.unix. From another terminal (one of those virtual
consoles will do fine) keep a close eye on your processes with ps -f -u foo.
If a process called "rmail" pops up, it's your lucky day. If no rmail appears,
ignore the rest of this article.

Simply move /bin/rmail back to its backup position -- /bin/OLDrmail or
whatever -- and link smail to /bin/rmail. Do nothing else! This way, typing
mail will call up your real mail program, which can be used to send mail with
subject lines et al. Do nothing else! Forget svbinmail ever existed, it won't
be needed.

See, if I remember right (probably not) the SCO mailer lets /bin/rmail do all
of its delivery. Putting smail in its place will allow you to retain the
full smail functionality (domain addresses, etc.) while using mail to actually
compose your messages.

Hope it works.
-- 
Bill Wisner, HASA 'A' Division		..ihnp4!killer!billw
"It's the coarse feel of the rope that I don't like."