Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!hermes!zug.ai.mit.edu!wisner
From: wisner@zug.AI.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: some (hopefully) useful comments about mail routing
Message-ID: <3157@hermes.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 88 00:48:49 GMT
References: <433@manta.pha.pa.us> <9447@swan.ulowell.edu>
Sender: usenet@hermes.ai.mit.edu
Reply-To: wisner@zug.AI.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Organization: MIT AI Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 12

In article <9447@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>We don't run smail here, thank you.

Sendmail snobbery is not necessary. Building and maintaining sendmail on
a UUCP-only site is generally more trouble than it is worth, particularly
if you happen to be a System V box. Smail 2.5 is capable enough for a
machine that isn't on the Internet and Smail 3.0 is sophisticated enough
-- it even speaks SMTP -- to allow many people to ditch sendmail entirely.

Don't get me wrong. Sendmail has its uses. I'm running it here for all
the stUdlY MX support. And a few minutes of sendmail.cf hacking knocks
me out quicker than sleeping pills.