On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:11:53 -0800, in message <347F41A9.97ED683D@???>,
Dana Booth <dana@???> (== dana)
praised Shub-Internet thus:
>> For those who don't know - which is probably most of you - I'm the
>> lunatic who's porting Exim over to OS/2, so that we wailing and
>> tormented souls can finally be free of sendmail [1].
> I know that some of the folks who run OS/2 based mail servers might be
> interested in this,
> but unlike UNIX, I can't think of any client side mail apps that use
> OS/2's sendmail, other than that horrible Ultimail that used to ship
> with OS/2. (does it still?)
To our cost, yes.
But there are more than a few that use sendmail, at least for sending
mail. I was using it (admittedly through a nasty hack) with the Post
Road Mailer for a while, I think the original mail software that came
with TCP/IP for OS/2 before Ultimail (LaMail?) did, and my present
mail software (Emacs/Gnus) only uses it, IIRC. For me, though, it
wasn't so much a software question. For a good while, my ISP only
delivered your mail using SMTP, and didn't have a POP option - if you
wanted any mail, you had to use sendmail or equivalent. And getting
Ultimail to cope with that is a really hideous piece of hackery...
But the way I see it, the advantage of using this Exim is
elsewhere. Even if you're only feeding a local POP daemon so that your
mailer can pick it up, you *do* get free multiple users/aliases (I'm
sorry, but managing multiple e-mail addresses through a POP server is
an exercise in pain, IMO), .forward files, mail filtering, etc.,
etc...
Alistair "better stop now, I'm sounding like a marketing man" Y
> On an OS/2 based machine that I use here at home, I wouldn't mind giving
> it a try,
[details e-mailed]
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Alistair J. R. Young Computational Thaumaturge & Son of Ether.
Arkane Systems Ltd. Sysimperator, dominus retis deusque machinarum.
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