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From: mikew@foobar.UUCP (Mike Wright)
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Subject: Re: smail "front end" followup (ORIGINAL SUBMITTER)
Message-ID: <146@semike.foobar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 12:55:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 12:55:43 1987
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Organization: - Intel Corp - Hawthorne Farms - Hillsboro, OR -
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Keywords: Xenix smail mailers
Summary: Response to smail running on Xenix

In article <844@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM>, pat@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Patrick Pesch) writes:
> 	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 :-(.
> 
> 	................  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)?".  

First some info :-
  Running Xenix Release 3.5 on an intel box

Now --

 If you run strings on "rmail" (the xenix one not smail) you should see
a set of strings that look like 

/usr/lib/mail/mail.local
..mail.local
/usr/lib/mail/mail.mn
..mail.mn
/usr/lib/mail/mail.an           <-- this is the key
..mail.an

IF this is the case - substitute a command that dumps args and stdin for
/usr/lib/mail/mail.an and then send mail to "fred@sys"

You should find that your version of /usr/lib/mail/mail.an gets invoked 
something like
    "..mail.an -f <from> <to>....."

If it does - you have won - read on - else "hit n".

Installation (at least this is what I did)
============

in defs.h

/usr/bin/rmail cannot handle more than one target - so
    #define MAXCLEN 0

lets put smail somewhere useful - so
    #define SMAIL "/usr/bin/smail"

uux does not like -a - so
    #define RMAIL(flags,from,sys) "%s %s - %s!rmail",UUX,flags,sys /* */

we want "remote from all the time so
  #define RFROM(frm,now,host)   "From %s  %.24s remote from %s\n",frm,now,host
  #define LFROM(frm,now,host)   "From %s %.24s remote from %s\n",frm,now, host

Now you can make smail

install smail as /usr/bin/smail
copy /usr/bin/rmail to /bin/lmail
install the program at the end of this posting as /usr/lib/mail/mail.an

If my memory serves correctly - thats all folks

Anyone care to comment on this approach ??


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/* program to massage the call to /usr/lib/mail/mail.an into
   a call to smail                                              */
#include <stdio.h>

char	*my_argv[23];

#define OFFSET 2

main(argc, argv)
int		argc;
char	*argv[];
{

	int		arg_index;

/*
	args look like 
		0		name
		1		-r
		2		<from user>
		3,4,...	<to users>

	we want
		0		"rmail"
		1,2..	<to users>
*/

	my_argv[0] = "rmail";

	for(arg_index = 3; arg_index != argc; arg_index++)
		my_argv[arg_index-OFFSET] = argv[arg_index];

	my_argv[arg_index - OFFSET] = (char *)NULL;

	execv("/usr/bin/smail", my_argv);
}

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