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From: bll@seer (Brad Lanam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Smail (2.5/3.0) for XENIX.
Summary: smail 2.5 runs under Xenix.  Other bugs?
Keywords: smail xenix
Message-ID: <333@seer>
Date: 23 Feb 90 17:16:20 GMT
References: <3500NU013809@NDSUVM1>
Reply-To: bll@seer (Brad Lanam)
Organization: Brad Lanam  Alamo, CA
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    I have smail 2.5 up and running under Xenix.  This is the first I
have heard of Xenix patches.  I did read one posting describing how to
install it -- you simply replace '/usr/lib/mail/execmail' with a link
to smail and be sure to put the command "set execmail" in
'/usr/lib/mail/mailrc'.

    The one problem I have with it is when I send a message to multiple
off-site users (e.g. mail foo@uunet bar@ucbvax), smail creates a uux
control file that tells my link to execute the command
"rmail foo@uunet bar@ucbvax".  Unfortunately, my feed's standard Xenix
rmail program cannot handle multiple addresses and bombs.  The Xenix
rmail apparently cannot handle multiple "To:" addresses -- if you want
to do this you must use the "Cc:" field in the mail message itself.

    Does anyone know if this is a bug in smail or a bug in the Xenix rmail
program?  Also, does anyone know where smail 3.0 is archived?  I tried
alphacm and got a smalltalk archive (my mail to sandy is sitting in uunet's
queue waiting for zardoz).

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