MAIL TO INTERACTIVE

[Jim Kunzman]

According to grant at bluemoon.uucp (Grant DeLorean):
>richard at pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>
>>>ISC uses sendmail.  Sendmail does support the return receipt, however,
>>>most user level mail programs that make and send your message do not.
>
> The sendmail ISC supplied (at least the one I got from them with 2.2)
>was brain dead. It spawned several copies of itself daily, none of which
>would go away and after a couple of days crash the system. Thankfully,
>smail 3.1 is around...
>
>>Since ISC's mailx has some really nasty bugs (at least in 2.0.2), I'd
>>imagine that many sites have installed replacement mailers like elm,
>>mush, etc.  I think most of these will actually allow you to edit the
>>header fairly easily (unlike mailx).
>
> The mailx with 2.2 was OK (as OK as mailx gets...). It doesn't hurt
>to install ELM anyway, much nicer. :-}
>
>>Just so people here don't get the wrong idea, here's one vote that
>>says Ten Plus isn't worth the price of the floppies they ship it on.
>>Just my opinion but, what a waste of time.  Too bad you can't return
>>junk software like you can junk books.
>
> I'll second that vote. I know at least 3 other folks who agree too (we
>don't even install it anymore). 
>
> Hmm, I just realized this is a sort of negative post. It isn't meant
>that way, I really think ISC is the best game in town at this time.

Hmmm, a recent article in UNIX World stated that 80% of all installed
80x86 systems were SCO UNIX systems.  Given that, and the fact that
80% of all commp.unix.sysv386 problem/bug reports are with ISC UNIX
:-(, you might rethink your position!  Judging by the traffic here,
either ISC UNIX has a lot of problems, poor support and/or
documentation, or a huge newbee base. :-)

Perhaps a separate ISC newsgroup IS needed to reduce the noise level
for non-ISC users. :-^)

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Jim Kunzman at Teltronics/TCT     <jim at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!jim>
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