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From: darius@edm.isac.CA (Darius S. Naqvi)
Subject: Re: smail on Atari ST
Reply-To: darius@edm.isac.ca (Darius S. Naqvi)
Organization: ISA Corporation, Edmonton, AB
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 91 18:42:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.184253.5423@edm.isac.CA>
References: <10713@mirsa.inria.fr> <A2739803784@thelake.mn.org>

In article <A2739803784@thelake.mn.org> steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes:
>[In article <10713@mirsa.inria.fr>,
>     gdo@mirsa.inria.fr (Guillaume Doumenc) writes ... ]
>
>> I've read a few months ago that there was a port of smail for the Atari on
>> the way. Is it finished now, and if yes is it available somewhere ?
>
>I'm using a version of smail that has been, in my opinion, finished for
>quite a long time. However, I didn't port it. The people who did the port
>have not released it for distribution, so I can't pass it around. Sorry.
>

Is this the Smail that we all know and love that runs on UNIX boxes,
i.e. the mail delivery agent?  If it is, then it's covered by the GNU
copyleft, so any version should be freely distributable.

I'd be interested in using this as the mail delivery agent when
running MINIX, as soon as I get UUCP for MINIX working properly.


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