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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
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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

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