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From: mikej@dasys1.UUCP (Mike Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Xenix Mail User Interfaces
Message-ID: <5621@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 88 12:42:32 GMT
References: <5447@dasys1.UUCP> <103@obie.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikej@dasys1.UUCP (Mike Johnston)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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In article <103@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>In article <5447@dasys1.UUCP>, mikej@dasys1.UUCP (Mike Johnston) writes:
>> I am looking for some recommendations on a mail interface that will work on
>> an Altos 2086 running Xenix. I have smail and pathalias compiled an working
>> but with smail installed, the user interface is poorer than that of the 
>> original mail program supplied with Xenix. 
>
>Check the manual for the Xenix mail program to see if it supports using
>other mailers to actually send the mail.  The Sys V `mailx' program,
>which is supposed to be similar to the Berkeley mailer, has a variable
>sendmail 

I wasn't aware of this but I will try. I do have many "undocumented" features
in the mail program that I have been finding out about lately. One of them
is the "execmail" option which sends mail in the background rather than in the
foreground.
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