Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Alternate Mailers for SCO Xenix, Help Please
Message-ID: <10480@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 18 Apr 88 17:50:00 GMT
References: <2835@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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User agent: mush (I run 5.7, am bringing up 6.0 now)
mailer: smail2.5, hacked to evaluate ! ahead of @, so a!b@c send
	to a, not c.

Why not run uucp? Excelan runs just fine over Enet, and gives you file
transfers, too. FTP is a LOUSY way to do complex unattended file
transfers.

I send all my stuff out via Enet/uucp, although I did take a few hours
and write an SMTP server to accept messages, I never bothered to finish
the mailer, since the uucp was satisfactory.

Yes FTP is faster than uucp for large transfers, but I hardly ever do
anything larger than a few MB, and your question was on mail.

I should give Excelan a call and see if I can put this in public domain.
I swiped about 20 lines of code to avoid typing the stuff that opens the
socket and waits for the connect. I could even write a doc ;-)
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me