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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: smail-3.1.29.1 cannot lock mailboxes
Date: 12 Jun 1995 11:17:03 +0200
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Christopher Hilton <chilton@MCS.COM> wrote:
>>(Perhaps we should provide /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf even for
>>users who don't install the full source.)
>
>This is a good idea. Also nice would be moving to sendmail 8.6.12 as
Ok, i hope i will remember it when it's time for the 2.1 release.
>there is a lot of paranoia about sendmail v8.6.9 and earlier having a
>lot of security holes.
I'm not sure which is the version currently in the source.
>My main problem with sendmail is that Eric Allman doesn't seem to
>consider UUCP a valid mail transport method so the documentation of
>the UUCP is stuff lacking. [...]
It seems that he's been ignoring it for a rather long time. It came
up in the hackers list some time ago that he's now in the opinion that
the FEATURE(`mailertable') is the way to go with UUCP. (For a typical
end-point UUCP site, `smarthost' might suffice as well.)
Actually, i've got good experiences with `mailertable'.
[mail spool 1777 for smail]
>In truth this isn't even necessary. You have to configure smail to
>use the local mail agent to append to mailboxes.
Yeah, i knew there has been a solution but i simply forgot what it
was. I'm not tempted to move to smail now, after running sendmail for
several years...
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)