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Anyone want to play with smail?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (svalente@MIT.EDU)
Fri Feb 11 06:33:36 1994
From: svalente@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 06:33:21 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
"smail" is an alternative to "sendmail" that we tried to use on Keesh
for the first couple of weeks that it was a Linux box, and we found to
be basically unusable.
However, that was a couple of versions ago. I'm the newest version
(3.0, I think, it came with Debian .91) on my Linux box at work (which
is now running Debian .91) and it seems to work really well. It seems
to be a lot easier to set up then Berkely sendmail, although probably
not as powerful. It comes with a program "smtpd" which you put in
inetd.conf and it receives incoming mail, and the configuration file
is actually readable (unlink sendmail.cf)!
Also, it comes with (probably) all Linux distributions, and the FSF is
making it part of GNU.
Here's my point: it would be useful if someone wanted to hack on the
smail configuration files enough to get them to act like the standard
athena sendmail.cf. Anybody interested?
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
