smail on Xenix 2.3.2

[Chip Rosenthal]

In article <4043 at questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff at questar.UUCP (Jeff Holmes) writes:
>	The part that confuses me is in the Install instructions.

Throw the instructions in the crapper.  They are useless.  The XENIX mail
configuration is totally different.

The whole key is that under XENIX, the mailing is done by
/usr/lib/mail/execmail.  At least it is once you've entered "set execmail"
in your /usr/lib/mailrc (which you *do* want to do for this).

>From there there are two choices:

1)  Install a fake "execmail" which redirects the message into smail.  There
    are some patches in the comp.sources.misc archives which make smail
    work with xenix and include the fake execmail.  Be careful, there are
    several revs in the archives.  Get the latest.

2)  My preference is to patch smail that it may be installed as
    /usr/lib/mail/execmail.  You can then throw execmail in the crapper
    with the smail installation instructions. :-)  However, with this
    approach you lose Micnet support (yawn).  I'd be glad to send out a
    copy of this patch.

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