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From: syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: elm 2.2 and xenix
Keywords: elm xenix groan
Message-ID: <114@dsinc.DSI.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 89 03:28:55 GMT
References: <1902@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <1902@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
>If you use rmail to deliver mail, the sender name gets screwed up.
>If you use mail to deliver mail, the subject line ends up after
>a blank line, therefore, no subject in the elm or mail headers list.
>
>My (obvious) question is what do I use to replace rmail so things work?
>A more general question is what is the right collection of programs to
>stick together (elm, deliver, pathalias, ...) so that you make a decent
>mailing system for XENIX?

It's interesting to note all the problems with Xenix mail.  As Elm
Coordinator, I know first hand Xenix's problems with mail.  Our gateway
is a SCO Xenix 386 box.

First off, what do we do:  We used to run smail 2.5 here along with
Excelans SMTP.  We don't use micnet, so that wasn't a problem.  That
worked well.  We recently acquired a copy of smail 3.1 and patched it
to use the older socket system and run only that.  It can do most of
everything, and there is some unsupported micnet stuff distributed with
it.  (Again, we don't use micnet).  I recommend using smail 2.5 and
pathalias until smail 3.1 is released.  (And yes, after they are
proven a little more, we will be submitting our changed to the
smail developers, and no, I won't send them to you. :-()
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.				Voice: (215) 947-9900
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