I have put together a set of patches to make a complete mail system
for Linux. I haven't put in the original source for most programs,
as it is probably already on your local ftp site.

Included programs are:
- procmail 3.03 for local mail delivery
- elm 2.4.23
- metamail 2.7, but I am not sure if it is useful...
- mumail 2.4b as a X11 mail reader
- mush 7.2.5 as your /usr/bin/mail program (/bin/mail)
- sendmail 8.6.9 as your mail transfer agent (see below for details)
- uucp 1.05

It is configured to use /var/mail to store mail and sendmail is
installed in /usr/sbin/sendmail.
Don't forget to change in /usr/include/paths.h _PATH_MAILDIR to this new
directory, as some programs like comsat depend on the proper setting of
this definition.

Both smail and sendmail work without problems, but I chose sendmail for
the following reasons:
- I know it better than smail
- I can make a default configuration with no hardcoded hostname, so
  that it works on any host without changes to the configuration.
  This is very useful for Linux distributions.

My new elm version is changed not to use the 'setdomainname' system call
to determine the DNS domain name. 'setdomainname' should be used to
get the NIS domain name...

Florian  La Roche

