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- Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT - Release of smail 3.1.29
- X-Mailer: exmh version 1.3 4/7/94
- Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1994 19:17:05 +0100
- From: Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Precedence: bulk
- Status: RO
-
-
- The Smail Development Team announce the release of version 3.1.29 of the
- smail MTA (Mail Transport Agent).
-
- Introduction
- ============
- Smail is an MTA, that is it routes and sends messages within and between
- different computers. It is not an MUA (Mail User Agent) - you will need one
- of these to use smail.
-
- Smail will run on a wide variety of Unix like systems. It handles many forms
- of mail transport including internet type SMTP and UUCP, other transports and
- routing methods can easily be configured in if required.
-
- Smail is command line compatible with the sendmail MTA, and can be used as a
- drop in replacement for sendmail. However it is not internally compatible
- with sendmail. In particular the configuration files are completely
- different although much simpler in form.
-
- Changes from 3.1.28
- ===================
- The 3.1.29 release is the first to be co-ordinated by the Smail Development
- Group, following the decision by Ronald S Karr (the primary developer of
- smail previous to this) to take a less active role. The group includes
- Ronald Karr, so this is a change in emphasis rather than ownership!
-
- Changes are detailed in the CHANGES file within the distribution. However in
- brief:-
- + Several security holes fixed
- + Bug fixes to SMTP retry code
- + New bindlib (for DNS/MX routing)
- + RFC1413 identification (with external library)
- + some extra functionality including queue reprocessing speed ups
- + Linux support*
-
- *Linux has been supported by previous versions of smail. The reason people
- had so many problems with Linux is that the descriptions of Linux produced
- for smail by a number of people were incorrect. There was also one bug in
- smail ((now fixed) that only shows on a Linux system. This version is
- correctly configured for Linux, if you are using a binary distribution of
- smail on linux we implore you to upgrade so that we stop getting queries
- regarding smail on linux which are purely due to someone releasing a broken
- binary version to the net.
-
- Release Files
- =============
- The release files are available from ftp.uu.net and its mirror sites, of
- which there are too many to list here. Please use a local mirror to keep the
- bandwidth used down - and to increase your own speed of access. On UUNET the
- files are in the directory
- /networking/mail/smail
-
- There are 4 files in this release - you will not require them all.
-
- smail-3.1.28-29.patch
- The patch file from 3.1.28 to 3.1.29
- Needs a clean 3.1.28 to patch to.
- This is big since all the version headers were changed
-
- smail-3.1.29.tar.gz
- The source in tar/gzip format
-
- smail-linuxbin-3.1.29.tar.gz
- A linux binary distribution.
- No sample configs are included.
- Compiled on Slackware 2.0.1, config files go in /etc/smail
-
- smail-psdocs-3.1.29.tar.gz
- Smail 3.1 documentation in PS format for A4 paper.
-
- Bugs
- ====
-
- Please report any bugs to
- smail3-bugs@smail.sbay.org
-
- This will go to a bug tracking system which will send you a reply back.
- Please be patient for a full reply.
-
- Late Breaking Stuff
- ===================
- There is one small patch to the SGI IRIX 5.x configuration file, which I
- enclose here:-
-
- *** 1.1 1994/10/18 08:30:04
- --- irix5 1994/11/04 05:39:12
- ***************
- *** 1,4 ****
- ! # $Id: irix5,v 1.1 1994/10/18 08:30:04 nm4 Exp $
- #
- # irix5 - describe characteristics of SGI IRIX version 5.X (5.2, actually)
- #
- --- 1,4 ----
- ! # $Id: irix5,v 1.1.1.1 1994/11/04 05:37:44 lyndon Exp $
- #
- # irix5 - describe characteristics of SGI IRIX version 5.X (5.2, actually)
- #
- ***************
- *** 11,17 ****
- # The following override the SVR4 settings - Irix has fixed some of the
- # braindamage.
- CC=cc
- - OSLIBS=-lc_s
- INCLUDES=
-
- HAVE=$HAVE:RENAME:MKDIR:SYSEXITS:YP:FTRUNCATE:GETHOSTNAME
- --- 11,16 ----
-
- Plea
- ====
- Please can you keep smail related communication with me to the smail3-bugs
- adress given above, or to the mailing lists which I do read and often reply
- to. I cannot cope with a torrent of personally address smail3 mail and do my
- real job as well!
-
- Nigel.
-
-
- --
- - Nigel Metheringham -- EMail: nm4@unix.york.ac.uk nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk -
- - System Administrator, Electronics Dept, University of York, York YO1 5DD -
- - Tel: +44 1904 432374, Fax: +44 1904 432335 | PGP key available from WWW -
- - WWW: http://www.amp.york.ac.uk/~nm4/ | -
-
-