From: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: 3.0 info, hints, and kinks (sendmail version, and other stuff)
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:00:22 GMT
Reply-To: dan@az.stratus.com

Frank Thomas writes
> In article <1992Sep20.172948.8838@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu  
> (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
> > In article <1992Sep18.230453.1144@cube.handheld.com>  
> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes:
> > I dunno.  This isn't one of those cases where its worth tracking down
> > bugs in NeXT's software when you have superior alternatives available.
> > I just run the latest IDA-foo sendmail on my system, and it works just
> > fine.  (Both with 2.1 and 3.0.)  It doesn't handle aliases which are
> > shoved into Netinfo, but this is a feature, not a bug as far as I'm
> > concerned.  Aliases in /etc/sendmail/aliases works fine.  I'm running
> > something which identifies itself as "5.65c/IDA-1.4.4".
> > 
> > I'm pretty surprised that NeXT doesn't just ship a real IDA-enhanced
> > sendmail with real working sendmail.cf files.  Especially since
> > Lennart Lovstrand, who did quite a bit with IDA-sendmail, now works
> > for NeXT.
> Why do you still use sendmail which (nearly?) noone can configure. I use  
> smail3.1.25 which I enhanced to handle netinfo-aliases. I tried to mail my  
> announcment to the address the author mentions in the doc's but got no  
> responds yet. I can upload the stuff to some ftp-side or mail it somebody.  
> Anyone interested ? 
> 
> Verified for 2.1
> Not tested yet for 3.0 (but should be no problem).
>  

I, too, put netinfo-alias handling into smail3.1.25 - it's officially
part of smail3.1.26 and above ..

smail3 is currently at smail3.1.28, and available on the network:

Here's some info that Ronald S. Karr, the maintainer of smail3, sent:
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 21:43 PDT
To: smail-alpha@veritas.com, smail3-users@cs.athabascau.ca
Subject: Smail Release 3.1.28 is now available
Reply-To: tron@veritas.com
Organization: VERITAS Software Corp.

Smail Release 3.1.28 is now available.  The patch from 3.1.27 to
release 3.1.28 is 57491 bytes (compressed).  The compressed tar
archive file is 980537 bytes.  This release is not very aggressive,
and makes only a small dent on my TODO list.  A list of changes is
included later in this message.


HOW TO GET RELEASE 3.1.28

At the present time, the release is known to be available from the
following servers:

Server:         uunet, ftp.uu.net
Files:          /networking/mail/smail/smail-3.1.28.tar.Z
                /networking/mail/smail/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
                /networking/mail/smail/smail.diff-3.1.27-3.1.28.Z
Location:       Falls Curch, Virginia, USA
Contact:        info@uunet.uu.net
Comments:       UUNET has a 900 number, for access at very reasonable cost
                from anywhere in the US.  The cost is 50 cents per minute,
                charged to your phone bill. The phone number is
                1-900-468-7727.  Login is "uucp" with no passwd. All uunet
                modems are Telebit modems, so they support most common US
                modem protocols.

    Canada:     (416) 368 6621
    Contact:    uunet-ca@uunet.uu.net

    India:      +91 842 238007
    Contact:    info%uunet-in@uunet.uu.net

Server:         ftp.msen.com
Files:          ~ftp/pub/packages/smail-3.1.28.tar.Z
                ~ftp/pub/packages/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
                ~ftp/pub/packages/smail.diff-3.1.27-3.1.28.Z
Location:       Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Contact:        ftp-service@msen.com

In addition, the mail has been sent to the following list of archive
servers, requesting that they obtain the new release.  Please try one
of the above archives, or one of the below archives, if possible.  If
you cannot, for some reason, get the patch file from any other source,
then I can E-mail it to you.  To get a patch from me, send mail to:

        smail-patch@veritas.com

I will not send the entire release by E-mail.  If you need to get a
complete release, or if you need to upgrade from release 3.1.25 or
earlier, you should get a complete tar archive from one of the
official archive sites.

Archive sites that are known to have release 3.1.27:

Server:         FTP.FU-Berlin.DE [130.133.4.50]
Files:          pub/unix/mail/smail/smail-3.1.27.tar.Z
                pub/unix/mail/smail/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Berlin, Germany
Contact:        ftp-adm@FU-Berlin.DE
Comment:        (From Vera Heinau): I wish to point out that the lines to
                Germany are sometimes (always ? ;-) very slow so people from
                overseas might prefer other servers.

Server:         ftp.eu.net
Files:          mail/smail/smail-3.1.27.tar.Z
                mail/smail/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Europe
Contact:        info-admin@EU.net

Server:         ftp.nluug.nl
Files:          pub/mail/smail/smail-3.1.27.tar.Z
                pub/mail/smail/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Holland
Contact:        info-admin@EU.net

Server:         ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.{1,2,3}]
Files:          pub/software/programs/smail/smail-3.1.27.Z
                pub/software/programs/smail/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Cambridge, England
Contact:        P.Hazel@ucs.cam.ac.uk, JANET: P.Hazel@uk.ac.cam.ucs

Server:         stasys, stasys.sta.sub.org, sta.sub.org
Files:          /pub/src/smail-3.1.27.tar.Z
                /pub/src/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Southern Germany
Contact:        Frank Kaefer <fkk@stasys.sta.sub.org>
Comments:       stasys allows anyone to dialin without charge.  The phone
                number is +49 8151 21250.  Login is "anonuucp" password is
                "anonuucp".  The modem accepts 1200 and 2400 baud, V.32,
                V.32bis, V.42, V.42bis, PEP, SuperPEP.

Server:         nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100]
Files:          pub/unix/mail/smail/smail-3.1.27.tar.Z
                pub/unix/mail/smail/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Finland
Contact:        UNIX moderators <unix-adm@nic.funet.fi>

Server:         lth.se [130.235.16.3]
Files:          pub/mail/smail/smail-3.1.26.tar.Z
                pub/mail/smail/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Sweden
Contact:        Joergen Haegg <jh@efd.lth.se>

Server:         ftp.ee.und.ac.za
Files:          /pub/unix/smail3/smail-3.1.27.tar.Z
                /pub/unix/smail3/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Durban, South Africa
Contact:        ftp@ftp.ee.und.ac.za

Server:         compaq.com [131.168.249.254]
Files:          pub/smail-3.1.27.tar.Z
                pub/smail.diff-3.1.26-3.1.27.Z
Location:       Houston, Texas, USA
Contact:        Greg Hackney <hackney@compaq.com>

Server:         uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Files:          /pub/smail-3.1.27.tar.Z
Location:       University of Illinois
Contact:        Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu
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Try it, you'll like it.

And it seems to be working, as is, under NS 3.0 - but (warning) I haven't
tried to recompile/install it under NS 3.0 - I'm still using the NS2.1-compiled
stuff under NS 3.0.

--
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