Which mail routing program do I need?

[Bruce D. Becker]

In article <1991Jun17.212220.8609 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
|In article <1991Jun14.204255.18302 at agate.berkeley.edu> et at ocf.berkeley.edu (Eric Thompson) writes:
|>Problems: I can't find a sendmail that will compile on my 3B2.  I know
|>that /usr/lib/aliases is where it will expand aliases, and this is the
|>type of thing I need.  Smail doesn't seem to know about alias files like
|>/usr/lib/alises.  If it did, Ithink it would be perfect.  If it does
|>and I just don't know it, *please* let me know, because I got Smail to
|>compile easily!  :-)

	Make sure the "defs.h" include file has
	the right info in it - you may have got
	smail from someone who tweaked theirs in
	some slightly unusual way.

|You should be able to use either smail2.5  or smail3.21.  They are very
|different programs but either should compile and run on the 3B2.

	"smail 3.1.21", actually

| Smail2.5 only does alias and forward file lookup - you need to use
|other programs for local and remote delivery.  If this is what you
|tried and it didn't work, perhaps you have something configured wrong
|or your aliases file wasn't sorted.

	Smail 2.5 doesn't need sorting of the
	"/usr/lib/aliases" file. However it does
	need to have the "/usr/lib/uucp/paths"
	file sorted as it does a binary lookup.
	It handles all remote uucp delivery in
	normal usage.

| Smail3.x does a fair impersonation of sendmail, including SMTP (optional),
|forwarding to files and pipes, and handling most of sendmail's command
|line options.  It's a bigger program with more options to configure, but
|it is also more versatile and robust.

	Smail 2.5 can forward to pipes with a simple
	patch; there's also patches to make it understand
	"%" in addresses, send BSD-style date formats, etc.


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