Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Xenix mail system Keywords: xenix, mail Message-ID: <1989Jan31.170500.19635@ateng.ateng.com> Date: 31 Jan 89 22:04:58 GMT References: <417@ispi.UUCP> <295@tessera.UUCP> <694@vector.UUCP> <232@tiamat.FSC.COM> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 29 In article <694@vector.UUCP>, chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes: > Hey Chip ... what does your mail setup look like? /usr/bin/mail -----> execm ---. | Elm -----. | .----------> (user mailboxes) | v | uuxqt -----+-----> smail,rmail -----+----------> uux | | recmail -----' `----------> deliver Here, /usr/bin/mail is the standard SCO program, and execm is my replacement for /usr/lib/mail/execmail that parses options and runs Smail. (My Xenix patches include the Smail 2 version of execm. Smail 3 will be distributed with execm included. Note that execm won't help unless /usr/lib/mail/mailrc contains the command "set execmail". I configure Elm to think that it has sendmail, which Smail 3 emulates. (One of the ten (!) links to /usr/bin/smail is /usr/lib/sendmail.) Smail 3 usually writes directly to user mailboxes. I, personally, have a .forward file that says "|/usr/bin/deliver chip", so my mail is handled by deliver. I could configure Smail 3 to use deliver for all local mail, and it would take about thirty seconds; but why? Smail 3's aliasing is flexible enough for most needs (except mine :-)). -- Chip Salzenberg or A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! "It's no good. They're tapping the lines."