I'm finally upgrading a 2-years-ancient Linux system, running an old Slackware 1.2 (or so) distribution. Back then Slackware's default mail agent was smail; since then they've switched to sendmail.
Slackware 3 was pre-installed on the new machine I bought, so I thought I'd try using it as the base system and selectively restoring my old setup as needed. I had problems compiling the latest smail from source, and the current Slackware smail binaries aren't configured to look for the same things as the old ones did. After a few hours of tinkering I had outgoing mail working but not incoming. I'm wondering if it wouldn't just be easier, since I'm in for a reinstall anyway, to junk Slackware and try building on a new Debian system. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has taken a similar leap from an old Slackware setup, especially re: the smail configuration. -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Night-walkers, wizards, Dep't of Geosciences, University of Arizona | bacchanals, revellers, http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | sharers in the mysteries." | --Heraclitus