Xenix mail system

[Chip Salzenberg]

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>
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