Sigfrid Lundberg: "smail 2.5 taylor-uucp 1.2 works under Linux 0.95a" (Mar 20, 14:34):
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> Linus,
> 
> Please forward this to alt.os.linux! I'm currently able to read, but not
> post news.
> 
> I have compiled and installed smail 2.5 and taylor-uucp. The former was
> easy to install. Just change a few options here and there, and hit make.
> The latter was much more awkward to compile under linux. The log and debug
> files look odd when browsing them in less.
> 
> I got permission to test this combination for sending mail from my
> home computer via a uucp-mail backbone site at the university. I sent
> two short messages and both of them reached their address, uucico just failed
> to hangup. But that is presumably due to errors in the dial file. I will
> resume my experiments when I've got a second modem in my office. 
> 
> When I have tested the configuration files and when taylor-uucp 1.3 is
> released (in a few weeks) I can distribute the diffs needed.
> 
> 
> Sigfrid Lundberg (siglun@lotka.teorekol.lu.se)