Xenix mail system

[Jim O'Connor]

In article <698 at vector.UUCP>, chip at vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
> 
> The result is a very lean and flexible mail system.  I'm very happy with
> it.  Yes, micnet has been lost -- but no great loss as far as I'm concerned.
> However, you could probably hack "deliver" to recognize micnet sites and
> feed the message to "/usr/lib/mail/mail.mn".  I did a similar thing:  I
> hacked my deliver sys file to recognize "user%site" addresses for internal
> machines on our ethernet.

See my other posting for how to set up smail2.5 to delever mail over micnet
and still be able to use deliver without having to hack much of anything.

> It looks to me when the really-it-is-going-to-be-here-someday version
> of smail is out, "deliver" could be dropped from its primary position
> in the mail system.  (Just as my changes dropped /usr/bin/mail -- but
> left it available for use.)

Smail3 will let you replace everything if you want to (except, of course,
the user agents and delivery commands like "uux").

> Then things (Rnmail, control.c, Elm, etc.) should be setup to mail through
> smail rather than /usr/bin/mail.

Even without deliver, if you have smail, you should eb able to do this.

> >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.)
> 
> OK ... /bin/smail, /bin/rmail, /usr/lib/sendmail ...
> What are the rest?

-r-sr-xr-x   8 root     csd       249286 Jan 27 19:20 /usr2/bin/mailq
-r-sr-xr-x   8 root     csd       249286 Jan 27 19:20 /usr2/bin/optto
-r-sr-xr-x   8 root     csd       249286 Jan 27 19:20 /usr2/bin/pathto
-r-sr-xr-x   8 root     csd       249286 Jan 27 19:20 /usr2/bin/rsmtp
-r-sr-xr-x   8 root     csd       249286 Jan 27 19:20 /usr2/bin/runq
-r-sr-xr-x   8 root     csd       249286 Jan 27 19:20 /usr2/bin/smail
-r-sr-xr-x   8 root     csd       249286 Jan 27 19:20 /usr2/bin/smtpd
-r-sr-xr-x   8 root     csd       249286 Jan 27 19:20 /usr2/bin/uupath

/usr2 is on a different filesystem than /usr, so these are linked
separately from the other three.

--jim