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From: joe@int212.UUCP (Joseph Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: elm 2.2 and xenix
Keywords: elm xenix groan
Message-ID: <314@int212.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 21:03:50 GMT
References: <1902@ssc.UUCP> <114@dsinc.DSI.COM>
Reply-To: joe@+++.UUCP (Joseph Francis)
Organization: AVCO International ISD
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In article <114@dsinc.DSI.COM> syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein) writes:
>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.
>>
...
>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.
>

I just installed 2.1 Elm on our machines, and there certainly were problems
with SCO 'rmail', etc.  I twitched the code to use 'mail' correctly and
had no subsequent problems;  But: previously, with rmail, it would not
send node names correctly (I was constatly sent out as joe@+++.uucp) and
my news still doesn't look at /etc/systemid, but I don't have the time
to find the source and play around again for news.  

The fun thing was, replying to an elm-sent mail in the original configuration:
It sent a reply automatically addressed to "...!blah!anonymous" from
"anonymous", and the mailer_daemon of course would send the message back to
the originator, 'no local user 'anonymous'' or something like that, back to
anonymous of and after about an hour of this back-and fourth the complete mail
file would be immense, happily tacking on mailer error messages.  A nice echo.

(But what a drag it was rewriting 'getty' to handle bidirectional 'direct'
lines for uucp's.  SCO doesn't distribute a 'uugetty' type thing even
with V2.3.  *sigh*)

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