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About:
Smail is a Mail Transport Agent. Its job is to accept mail messages from sources on the local machine, or from remote hosts, and deliver those messages to the appropriate destinations, be they to remote hosts or to files or programs on the local machine. Smail is designed to be mostly compatible with sendmail but uses a much simpler configuration scheme.
Release focus: Minor feature enhancements
Changes:
This release is primarily a bugfix and clean-up release. It
also includes a first cut at message arrival and delivery
delay accounting. This release further adapts the makefiles
to be portable between all major variants of make in use on
modern systems while at the same time still supporting
useful developer and maintainer features such as automated
dependency tracking.
Author:
Greg A. Woods [contact developer]
Homepage:
http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/smail.html
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.planix.com/pub/Smail/
BSD Ports URL:
ftp://ftp.planix.com/pub/Smail/smail-pkgsrc.shar
Mirror site:
ftp://ftp.weird.com/pub/local/
Trove categories:
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Dependencies:
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3.2.0.120
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Major bugfixes |
27-Aug-2004 14:53 |
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3.2.0.119
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Minor feature enhancements |
27-Aug-2004 03:00 |
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3.2.0.118
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Major bugfixes |
01-Jun-2004 21:18 |
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3.2.0.117
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Minor bugfixes |
31-May-2004 18:02 |
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3.2.0.116
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Major feature enhancements |
27-Mar-2004 02:03 |
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3.2.0.115
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Major feature enhancements |
18-Jun-2003 21:25 |
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3.2.0.114
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Major bugfixes |
07-Aug-2001 03:21 |
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3.2.0.113
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Minor security fixes |
31-Jul-2001 00:28 |
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3.2.0.112
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Major feature enhancements |
23-Feb-2001 08:48 |
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3.2.0.111
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18-Feb-2000 07:49 |
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Handy
by Jason Martin - Aug 8th 2002 11:48:49
Definetely handy when you want a sendmail-compatible (ie
/usr/sbin/sendmail) MTA for a firewall type machine that should only be
send-only, no daemon (although this supports receiving as well). An example
is a firewall machine w/Arpwatch -- it requires /usr/sbin/sendmail to
exist, but who wants to install all of sendmail just to send a status
message? Well done.
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Smail history
by Greg A. Woods - Jan 30th 2000 23:59:21
Smail-3 definitely came after Sendmail.
It was written as a sendmail replacement for normal people and as such
has a much simpler configuration interface insted of the finite state
machine that drives sendmail. in fact the most recent versions should work
out of the box with no post-compilation configuration necessary on most
leaf node sites.
The major version number of Smail is "3" because it came after
Smail-2, a very simple UUCP mailer written a very long time ago by Chris
Seiwald when he was at AT&T in order to do automatic UUCP routing using
pathalias and the UUCP Map Project database. Smail-2 replaced an earlier
Smail-1. Smail-1 was probably written just about the same time, or maybe
before, sendmail, but I'm not sure (sendmail is first copyright in 1983 and
smail-2 is first dated 1985). Smail-3's authors liked the simplicity of
Smail-2 and the idea was to write a mailer to replace Smail-2 and bring new
gateway and Internet capability without sacrificing the simplicity. Other
than that Smail-2 and Smail-3 are really linked only in name.
Most other currently used SMTP-capable mailers, including zmailer,
exim, qmail, postfix, and so on were written long after sendmail was first
released and most were written to address the shortcomings of sendmail.
Exim was in fact modeled after Smail-3 and could in some senses be
considered to be a full rewrite.
--
Greg A. Woods
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