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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands
Date: 28 Aug 1994 17:46:06 -0500
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References: <33af70$8rd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <3557@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <ROCKWELL.94Aug27012338@nova.umd.edu> <33qg01$37k@hamlet.umd.edu>
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In article <33qg01$37k@hamlet.umd.edu>,
Peter Brewer <brewer@hamlet.umd.edu> wrote:
>>. smail has come quite aways from it's humble UUCP origins. It
>>
>>Can it handle MX records yet?
>Likely as not; not ever. The only REAL alternative for REALLY LARGE networks
>would be that software from Udel or Upa that never caught on. CSnet used to
>use it. Otherwise it is sendmail.
Sure it does. Perhaps you are thinking of smail 2.5 which was a much
smaller program intended only for use with uucp.
The main complaints about smail3 fall into 3 groups:
(1) People with the misconfigured Slackware Linux distribution.
(2) The inability to do arbitrary header rewrites.
(3) The inefficient handling of retries on messages which are part of
large mailing lists. (It wants to resolve all the addresses and
compare against the list of completed deliveries).
There are patches around for (1) and (3). Nobody has managed (2) completely,
but the built-in rules usually are correct which is largely why smail
is easier to configure than sendmail.
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com