Here is a version of /bin/mail. If you've ever actually used /bin/mail
under Unix, you know it is archaic and has a poor user interface. This
version duplicates these characteristics quite faithfully.

However, it is the standard delivery agent on most Unix systems, even
those with better user interfaces. (The UCB "Mail" program is freely
redistributable, if anyone wants to port it, but it is big and depends
on reliable signals and file locking. One of these days I intend to write
a simple MH-clone in sh-scripts.)

If you have a "network transport agent" available, such as smail or
sendmail (!), then you can uncomment the line defining a MAILER. Without
such an agent, the program is still useful for reading and sending local
mail between users on your local Minix system.

The program is suid-root, so there could potentially be a sercurity hole
or two. I was careful, but if you find any problems please tell me.

Install using "make install". Basically, put it in /usr/bin, owned by
root, mode 4755 (set-uid). The link named "/usr/bin/lmail" is for the
"smail" and "umail" mailers.

-Peter S. Housel-	housel@ecn.purdue.edu		...!pur-ee!housel
 Fred van Kempen	waltje@kyber.uucp

