Newsgroups: comp.os.linux From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: mailpak.tar on tsx-11 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1992 01:07:56 GMT As promised, I've uploaded mailpak.tar to tsx-11.mit.edu in /incoming. Here's the README.first.linux for the package: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is release 1.0 of my email package. It includes: 1. elm2.3 patch level 11 sources, ready to compile with gcc 2.2.2. 2. taylor-uucp, patch level 1.03a, ready to compile, with sample Systems, Devices, and Permissions files. 3. mail, Emmett Gray's mailer (with extensive hacks by me). 4. smail3, with a simple paths file. You don't really need smail3, but I've included it for those who want such things. 5. Release 1.1.f of uustatus, a realtime uucp status monitor. Run it in a virtual console and fire up uucp. Watch comp.os.linux for announcements on updates, etc. -- Ed Carp erc@apple.com INSTRUCTIONS: To compile: make a user 'uucp' in /etc/passwd. THIS IS IMPORTANT! cd uucp more -c README.linux cp samples/* /usr/lib/uucp chmod 600 /usr/lib/uucp/* chown uucp /usr/lib/uucp/* make;make install cd ../../elm2.3 more -c README.linux sh Configure make all chmod 2755 bin/elm chgrp mail bin/elm mv bin/* /usr/local/bin cd ../uustatus make uustatus mv uustatus /usr/local/bin # if you want to use my mailer... cd ../mail make mv mail /bin/mail ln /bin/mail /bin/rmail # else do this: cd smail3 make (then follow the directions in Install) Install smail3, and use my mailer for your local mailer. Edit Devices, Permissions, and Systems in /usr/lib/uucp to suit. Edit (or build) /usr/lib/uucp/paths. I dn't include pathalias in this package - you can get it from ftp.uu.net. If enough people complain, I'll include it in the next release. ** KNOWN BUGS ** I suggest you use elm as your high-level transport mechanism, and leave /bin/mail alone. elm sometimes has trouble restoring premissions for mailboxes. Occasionally uux bombs mailing things out with a "getcwd: No such file". This seems to be a transient problem. Do a "sync" and retry. -- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com <-- preferred email address! "In wildness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Thoreau ** Member, Linux port team - uucp division ** :) 801/269-8125
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: Mail hint X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 22:08:56 GMT dhs@moeng2.minc.umd.edu (David H. Silber) writes: : I just spent a day trying to figure this one out, so I figure someone : else might find the info usefull... : : I got the mailpak.tar (most recent is now mailpak12, unless it has been : upgraded /again/) distribution compiled & installed mail, rmail, elm, : etc. I can send messages OK, but elm /always/ complains that "Folder is : corrupted!!", when I try to read the mail. The solution: Run the : configuration script again. When you get to the question about MMDF, Don't just sake "make all" after getting mailpak! As README.elm says, "Run sh Configure". The original config.sh won't work for you. Well, actually it will, but I haven't experimented with it - maybe I'll be getting all your mail :) : P.S. Thanks to Ed Carp for mailpak##.tar & his answers to my : questions. : P.P.S. Ed -- There have been several upgrades to the mailpak package. : What are these patches for? Let's see ... if memory serves, the first patch was to make mail work with smart hosts. The second was for uustatus. I'm just about to upload 1.3, which contains (again) minor patches to uustatus to (1) make it work with SVR4, and (2) to more accurately calculate throughput figures. There are still problems with uucp, though. I'm seeing uucico hang on a modem port without timing out - I wonder if it's related to H. J.'s recent patches affecting restartable system calls? -- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com <-- preferred email address! "In wildness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Thoreau ** Member, Linux port team - uucp division ** :) 801/269-8125
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) Subject: Re: Mail hint Organization: Washington State University Date: Sat, 18 Jul 92 23:33:13 GMT In article <1992Jul18.220856.22272@unislc.uucp>, erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes: |> dhs@moeng2.minc.umd.edu (David H. Silber) writes: |> [deleted] |> SVR4, and (2) to more accurately calculate throughput figures. There are |> still problems with uucp, though. I'm seeing uucico hang on a modem port without |> timing out - I wonder if it's related to H. J.'s recent patches affecting |> restartable system calls? I didn't change any sys calls. All is done inside the kernel. H.J. -- Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.