From cs.athabascau.ca!smail3-users-request Mon Nov 7 18:56:39 1994 >From erlendbm Mon Nov 7 18:56:39 1994 Return-Path: Received: from aupair.cs.athabascau.ca by colargol.edb.tih.no with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #12) id m0r4YJ3-0001uda; Mon, 7 Nov 94 18:56 MET Received: by aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Smail3.1.28.1 #8) id m0r4YYa-0002AQa; Mon, 7 Nov 94 11:12 MST Message-Id: To: smail3-users@cs.athabascau.ca, smail3-wizards@cs.athabascau.ca Cc: linux-uk@mailbase.ac.uk 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 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/ | -