How do I configure mail?

[Thad P Floryan]

wtm at uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) in
<1990Oct25.030125.12673 at uhura.neoucom.EDU> writes some interesting info about
sendmail configuration on his 3B1, and concludes "This isn't the prettiest
approach, but it does work for me.  I'm an EE, not a CS person, so I have a
bit of an excuse.  I'd love to hear any better ideas."

Some other solutions that will work and which I've tested (with multiple 3B1s
and other systems on a network) include some of the following.  Note that
the 3B1s are running HDB, Ethernet, StarLAN, and the latest OS from AT&T
along with the BSD networking stuff I ported to the 3B1.

smail 2.5, both with and without sendmail "handoffs".  Very easy to configure,
and specifying a "smarthost" to handle non-local mail is trivial.  You should
be able to bring this package up within a few minutes after reading its docs.
It also provides replacements for the "stock" mail, etc.  You'd also want the
pathalias up and running.  This all works fine compiled with the stock cc and
with gcc on the 3B1, so I suspect it'd go fine under A/UX with gcc, too.  And
smail gives you the RFC-compliant headers, etc.

(BTW, we finally got GNU "make" 3.58 up on A/UX 2.0 since the standard "make"
couldn't handle the number of targets and dependencies required for my
product; if anyone else is contemplating porting GNU make, there are some
"gotchas" under A/UX 2.0 (hint: do a grep setvbuf :-) and it doesn't work too
well with the stock cc, so use gcc instead).

smail 3.*, and dispose of sendmail entirely.  I'm still "playing" with this
one and will reserve comments until I've read over all the sources and docs.

mmdf, though I haven't done anything with it (yet).  It claims to be the
solution to all the sendmail woes.


Thad Floryan [ thad at cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]