Xenix mail system
Chip Salzenberg
chip at ateng.ateng.com
Tue Jan 24 03:43:27 AEST 1989
According to jtc at tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin):
>This is a brief history of my mail system.
>1. Replaced execmail with sendmail.
>2. Used smail as a back end to sendmail.
>3. Totally removed SCO mail.
>
> [ Bug waiting to happen department: What is bound to happen sooner
> or later when two Xenix machines on a network share the /usr/spool/mail
> directory when they don't also share /tmp? ]
The "deliver" program can be configured to use *both* Xenix and Unix locking
schemes. This provides maximal safety in networked environments.
> The ELM configuration script discovered I was on a Xenix box
> and blindly assumed I was using that standard Xenix methodology.
> It didn't even ask for confirmation!
If you have a non-standard system, you have to expect such problems.
--
Chip Salzenberg <chip at ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip>
A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest!
"It's no good. They're tapping the lines."
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