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From: waters@dover.uucp (Mike Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: smail 3.0
Summary: Thanks for the replies
Message-ID: <526@dover.uucp>
Date: 11 Nov 88 16:15:39 GMT
References: <1802@cbnews.ATT.COM> <10517@ncc.Nexus.CA> <518@dover.uucp>
Reply-To: waters@dover.UUCP (Mike Waters)
Organization: Motorola CAD Mesa, AZ {dover}
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Thanks to everyone who sent info on this and my "Internet" question.
I tried to mail replies to everyone, but every one "bounced" from
sun.com. I guess either my maps are out of date or the Internet
connections are still all screwed up so here is a summary of what I
found out.


In article <518@dover.uucp> sun!sunburn!dover!waters (Mike Waters) writes:
>
>1) Do you have to go through some high priced "registry" to use Smail?

No - "registry" refers either to membership in one of the networks or a
way to obtain a domain name. I think ours is .mot.com 

Smail 2.5 (the one we have) is available through several archives and is
public domain. We got our copy from simtel20 via ftp from another
machine.


>
>2) Does Smail allow the use of the comp.mail.maps? If not how does it
>get updated?
>

Smail per se does NOT use the maps from news, but uses pathalias and one
of the shell scripts to extract the map files. We use uuhosts and it
appears to work so far (1 week). Basically once a directory of map files
is created, you run pathalias and it creates a "from here to xxx" file
for every destination in the maps. You DO need to get a copy of the maps
from somewhere (approx 1Mbyte), since only UPDATES are sent out by the
mapping project. A local UUCP site should have them.

In order for others to find you you must register with the uucp mapping
project as outlined in the comp.mail.maps README file, it also helps to
post the info to news.{newsite,config}.

Overall not too hard to do once you find out what to do.

Again many thanks to everyone who sent me mail, I hope I have answered
everyone's questions - incuding requests for "enlightenment". We WILL
be trying smail in the near future. Our registry of "dover" has gone
out - who knows if it will get through thoug!

-- 
Mike Waters                 (for your EDIFication)
Motorola SMART CAD Group - EDIF (ANSI/EIA std. 548) support
Mesa, AZ   ...!sun!sunburn!dover!waters
          OR   moto@cad.Berkley.EDU