Re: smail, not open email relay
:-) Done, and with the new version the attrib you suggested is exactly
what I needed :-)
I put this link in /usr/lib:
/usr/lib/libnsl.a -> libident.a
Compilation of smail-3.2.0.102-1 needed libnsl, none of the packages in the
Debian1.3.1 binary CD contained such file, but I started thinking it could
belong to a more recent bind/libident/libident-devel package... if none of
the Debian1.3.1 packages had that library, maybe the required functions were
already in some other libraries... I could eliminate -lnsl everywhere from
the smail source tree, or just put that link.
Notice: I had this warning at compile time (but it was not the only one):
domain.c: In function nslookup':
domain.c:119: warning: passing arg 7 of res_mkquery' from incompatible
pointer
type
_THANK_YOU_ Martin (I would be going mad on the docs of the old smail
version without your clue, assuming that smail, conceived for the uni*es
and adopted by Debian, sure has been offering that feature since its very
first versions).
Nicola
On 25 Apr 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> >> "NB" == Nicola Bernardelli <nbern@esselite.it> writes:
>
> NB> Alas I fear that the version string "Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2"
> NB> means _before_ that feature was added, sendmail does not work any
> NB> more, the above line is what I got when I tried to send out mail
> NB> as a user of the box.
>
> You said you hae Debian 1.3, so yes, the smail package is too old for
> that.
>
> You can recompile smail. Get the new sources from the current Debian
> stable tree (dists/stable/main/source), that is all three packages
> (.diff.gz. .dsc .tar.gz - use a ftp programm, Netscape will decompress
> them).
>
> Then run
> dpkg-source -x smail*.dsc
> cd into the created smail directory
> fakeroot debian/rules binary
>
> >From the dependencies, you need at least libident-dev to build
> it. Check the INSTALL/README file.
>
> Ciao,
> Martin
>
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