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From: pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Patrick Pesch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: smail "front end" followup (ORIGINAL SUBMITTER)
Message-ID: <844@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 13:27:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: seradg.844
Posted: Sun Oct 18 13:27:12 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Oct-87 00:32:29 EDT
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Organization: SE-Retail Advanced Development, NCR Corp, Dayton
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Keywords: Xenix smail mailers


	THANKS to all of you out there that posted/e-mailed you suggestions
	to me...  I'm still sorting through some responses, but so many have
	asked me to let them know what I found out that I thought I'd post
	now...

	First of all, SCO Xenix 2.1.3 mail seems to be a mailx DERIVATIVE.
	Almost 3/4 of the responses were to ...

		"edit the mailrc file and add -set sendmail=/bin/smail"

	...and such.  While the Xenix mailer DOES have a global mailrc,
	and you can "set" mail variables, there is no sendmail variable :-(.

	No solution will seem to work if it expects the Xenix mailer to 
	"pass on" the recipients address to another mailer without first 
	looking at them.  For example, I CAN get the mailer to route the 
	following:

		mail mach1!user@Dayton.NCR.COM

	because it starts with "machine!user...", a normal UUCP path.
	However if I try:

		mail user@mach1domain.Dayton.NCR.COM

	mail says (something like) "Unknown recipient, ignore (y/n)?".  
	No matter how I answer the mail does not get send.  So it looks 
	like this is a "take it all or leave it buddy" mailer.  There 
	are two programs in the /usr/lib/mail directory that may :-) 
	be the answer.  They are execmail and mail.local.  They are 
	forked by the mailer, but it appears that the mailer KNOWS 
	everything about execmail and starts it with its own options, 
	etc...  I have to look in the manuals for these two, but I 
	don't remember seeing them in the mail sections before...

	So, it looks I'm S.O.L., unless somebody has written a mailer
	that does some nice things for composing mail (suggestions?)
	that will work with smail, pathalias, etc...

	Thanks again everybody, I appreciate all the efforts!

			Patrick Pesch	pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM
			NCR Corporation
			Dayton OH