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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!docws001!ottnews!tomqnx.tomqnx.com!tom From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Subject: Re: smail 3.1.29.1 delivery problems X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 159.249.8.221 Message-ID: <Dw80t4.Hrs@ottnews.shl.com> Sender: usenet@ottnews.shl.com (News Administrator) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. (Ottawa) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <Dvs0ow.C0t@racoon.riga.lv> <4umupd$n5l@prim.sartax.saratov.su> <4uo9qf$uo@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:58:15 GMT Lines: 23 I am using smail with mail.local with success. The only tricky thing I found was that under 2.1 the smail package install was faulty. Do a 'man smail' then 'find' all the aliases of that program. if they do not point to 'smail', delete the old sendmail stuff and put in symbolic links to 'smail'. J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : skp@sartax.saratov.su (Serge K. Polyakov) wrote: : > You can try to set up permissions on /var/mail: rwxrwxrwt (set sticky-bit) : This is a bad idea security-wise, since there are known race : conditions that might compromise the security of the mail spool files. : Smail can be setup so it uses /usr/libexec/mail.local to perform the : actual delivery. : -- : cheers, J"org : joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE : Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)