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From: jpp@slxsys.specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Xenix Mail User Interfaces
Message-ID: <221@slxsys.specialix.co.uk>
Date: 28 Jul 88 08:37:21 GMT
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Organization: Specialix International, London, UK.
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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. 
> 
There are two ways to sort this out:

1)  The sco mail program can be told (set execmail) to call
 /usr/lib/mail/execmail to deliver mail.   You replace execmail with
a link to smail and tell smail to use the old execmail program
(I call it execmail.sco) as a local delivery agent.  This may or may not
work for altos Xenix.

2) Get a copy of mush from comp.sources.unix !

You can combine 1 & 2 (as we do here)

Hope this helps

Regards
John Pettitt
Technical Director and mail hacker
Specialix International
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