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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: smail-3.1.29.1 cannot lock mailboxes
Date: 6 Jun 1995 20:58:07 -0500
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In article <3r2ron$qap@bell.maths.tcd.ie>,
Bryan O'Sullivan <bosullvn@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton) writes:
>
>> I'm having troubles with smail-3.1.29.1 [...]
>
>The solution to this is straightforward: kill all traces of your smail
>installation, and install sendmail 8.6.whatever-it-is-now instead. I
>wouldn't presume to try to influence you by offering up several years'
>worth of pent-up hatred of smail on my part but, really, smail is quite
>horrible.
>
>Mind you, I would not hesitate to say the same of sendmail, but at
>least it loses in ways that are usually both less obtrusive and better
>documented.
>
> <b
>
Thank's for the response, seriously. I've got the latest version of
sendmail, 8.6.12?, too and given the choice would gladly run it but
I'm trying to set up a box to get mail via UUCP and without the "bat
book" this task looks impossible to me. I've already set up smail to
handle the mail via UUCP.
If you've got a sendmail.cf that won't require too much hacking to
understand uucp that will get the job done too. I've already got the
uucpproto.cf that comes with sendmail-8.6.12 and it does not fit the
bill.
I'm not interested in starting a sendmail vs smail flame war here I
just want to get mail comming into my girlfriends mailbox on this
machine. A working smail or a working sendmail + uucp configuration
does the job.
C.
P.S. According the smail the permissions on /var/mail should be 1777
bin bin. That fixed the problem, again, am I making my situation worse
by doing that?
--
Christopher Sean Hilton E-mail: chilton@mcs.com
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