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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Subject: Re: smailbombs
Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ
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References: <4h01uc$b6q@kryten.awinc.com> <DnHAHM.3Aq@twwells.com> <4h2tjj$db7@cronkite.cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 09:16:09 GMT
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In article <4h2tjj$db7@cronkite.cisco.com>,
Tim Iverson <iverson@cisco.com> wrote:
: I'm running smail-3.1.28 on the 950210-SNAP of 2.1 (yeah, it's old - I'll
: upgrade sometime ...).  It works great.  Porting was non-trivial, though;
: there was lots of stuff that needed fixing, mostly due to incompatibilities
: in some of the Bourne shell scripts.

I solved that one by using bash as my /bin/sh. It's a minor annoyance
to make sure that it's statically linked but other than that,
it has caused me absolutely no problems.

: I have patches - send e-mail if you want them.

No thanks. 3.1.28 has security problems.