smail vs. sendmail

Samuel Lam skl at van-bc.UUCP
Sun Jan 1 20:56:08 AEST 1989


In article <3401 at mipos3.intel.com>, akay at cadsqa.UUCP (Allen Kay) wrote:
>In article <378 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>>I have just finished installing smail on this system.  Now that
>>I am done I have a question.  Since it is apparent that smail is able to
>>do smart routing, what else does sendmail do that smail does not? 
>
>From what I have heard, smail doesn't work well with DECnet mail.

smail (at least up to 2.5) also doesn't exchange mail using SMTP
(RFC821).  That at least means you can't use it (alone) to accept
mail on TCP port 25 or send mail over TCP/IP.

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Samuel Lam     {alberta,watmath,uw-beaver,cs.ubc.ca}!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl



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