Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:358 comp.mail.uucp:2555 comp.unix.questions:10875 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!skl From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: smail vs. sendmail Summary: smail doesn't do SMTP. Keywords: smail, sendmail Message-ID: <2085@van-bc.UUCP> Date: 1 Jan 89 10:56:08 GMT References: <378@ispi.UUCP> <3401@mipos3.intel.com> Organization: Balliffe Consulting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 14 In article <3401@mipos3.intel.com>, akay@cadsqa.UUCP (Allen Kay) wrote: >In article <378@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: >>I have just finished installing smail on this system. Now that >>I am done I have a question. Since it is apparent that smail is able to >>do smart routing, what else does sendmail do that smail does not? > >From what I have heard, smail doesn't work well with DECnet mail. smail (at least up to 2.5) also doesn't exchange mail using SMTP (RFC821). That at least means you can't use it (alone) to accept mail on TCP port 25 or send mail over TCP/IP. -- Samuel Lam {alberta,watmath,uw-beaver,cs.ubc.ca}!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl