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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hippo.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!mrvm.its.uct.ac.za!murray From: murray@its.uct.ac.za (Mark Murray) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: WANTED: smail-3.1.28 for FreeBSD Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 08:04:00 GMT Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 35 Message-ID: <murray.36.2E0A9370@its.uct.ac.za> References: <2tq3at$mr2@blkbox.blkbox.COM> <2ts3hp$2u4@knobel.knirsch.de> <2u6vv1$97e@Venus.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mrvm.its.uct.ac.za In article <2u6vv1$97e@Venus.mcs.com> malenovi@MCS.COM (Nik) writes: >I had similar expirience - sendmail was confusing the living hell out of me. >it was so bad that I took three weeks to actually port smail 3.1.28 on >FreeBSD 1.0e if I remember correctly. :-) It took me about two days... :-) >>: What I have NO problem with is smail-3.1.28. I have >>: used it and it works well for me. Has anyone out there compiled it for >>: FreeBSD 1.1? If so, can I get a copy? If not the executable can I get the >>: modified sources? Please help as sendmail is about to kill me. >> >>And now it's smail that you doesn't get configured and compiled ?! ;-) >smail 3.1.28 compiles out-of-the-box. all you have to edit is freebsd config >file. the rest compiles great. you can check ftp.sin.com:/pub/FreeBSD/ports NOT SO!! (OK it compiles, but does not work) The appenfile routine will not append mail to users mailboxes in /var/mail unless this directory is chmod'ed to 1777. This is a bad thing. If you want the fixed version (There are one or two small fixes) get it from freefall.cdrom.com:/FreeBSD/incoming (or is it incoming/FreeBSD?) I know this works, I have been using it for a while... M -- Mark Murray (ITS/MURRAY) \+/ Internet: murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za User support services +X+ Voice: +27 21 650 3025 Information Technology Services, /+\ This .sig is umop ap!sdn University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa