Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Hopefull administrator asks dumb questions
Summary: building MH on a Sys V home machine
Message-ID: <2014@spdcc.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 88 00:46:14 GMT
References: <6338@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <6338@watcgl.waterloo.edu> jrmacmillan@lily.waterloo.edu (John R. MacMillan) writes:
>After browsing the MH docs and using it here at school a bit, I
>decided that MH was the mailer I'd been looking for all my life (well,
>a while, anyway), and so I had to get it running at home...
>My question really is about what mts I should (or must) use.  Do I
>have to use the standalone mts?  How does smail/pathalias fit in?  Or
>can I use the sendmail interface somehow?  

I have a XENIX 386 box with sendmail and smail 2.5 (the sendmail.cf
is the one distributed with smail) and MH6.5.  My MH6.5 uses sendmail
as its MTS, the choice which seemed most straightforward.

You can compile sendmail without the TCP support: under XENIX 386, I have
the following flags defined in sendmail/src/conf.h: USG, DBM, DEBUG,
SMTP, UGLYUUCP, and do not define NDBM, LOG, QUEUE, DAEMON, FLOCK,
SETPROCTITLE or WIZ.  I believe that DBM is a BSDism, so your 3B1
might have to forgo that.

As for MH6.5, I must admit that I archived the sources long ago to tape
and now have lost the tape!  However, this is the -help output from inc,
which should tell you what flags I chose:

version: MH 6.5 #47[UCI] (spdcc) of Tue Jun 30 23:57:23 EDT 1987
options: [DUMB] [MORE='"/usr/bin/more"'] [NDIR] [SYS5] [UCI]
         [SBACKUP='"#"'] [SENDMTS]

NDIR was chosen because XENIX already includes the "new directory access"
routines.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
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