Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!icus!lenny
From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: smail on Sys V and mailx
Summary: rmail and smail -- how it works with mailx.
Keywords: smail SysV mailx
Message-ID: <233@icus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 02:04:03 GMT
References: <144@magic4.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY
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In article <144@magic4.UUCP> eric@magic4.UUCP (Eric Kozowski) writes:
|>I have installed smail2.5 on my system (AT&T 3B2/400 running SysV 2.0.4) and
|>everything seems to be working (thanks to you netlanders who helped), but I
|>have a question.  How does mailx that comes with system V fit into the smail
|>stuff?  The origional mail got replaced, so what should happen to mailx.  It
|>appears that mailx is similar to sendmail (although I could be wrong :^)  ).
|>Any help from you people who have installed smail in similar situations would
|>be great.  
|>

Basically smail replaces the rmail program that handles remote mail.  You
should have renamed rmail to rmail.old (just in case) :-)  and then copy
smail to rmail, and then link rmail and smail.

When mailx sees the "hosta!hostb!hostc!...!user" syntax (or "user@host")
for that matter it feeds the output to rmail for remote delivery.  Now
rmail is the new smail handles the paths for you!!  

					-Lenny

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