From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] Quick question: earliest Unix system with mail, uucp and bangpaths?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 22:47:06 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170313124706.GA29402@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
As I go to bed, I wonder. Which was the earliest system that used uucp to
send mail through multiple systems to a remote user?
I see V7 has uucp/sdmail.c, but the comment says: This is only implemented
for local system mail at this time. Ditto 32V and 3BSD.
4BSD has delivermail. Its uucp has a README which says: The ``mail'' command
has been modified, so that it may only be used to send mail, when it is
invoked under a name beginning with 'r'. 3BSD has the same uucp.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=3BSD/usr/src/cmd/uucp/README
Ah, but 32V's mail.c checks for 'r':
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=32V/usr/src/cmd/mail.c
and so does V7:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/mail.c
So I guess I've just answered my question. It also looks like delivermail
from 4.1BSD could compile on V7, so it might be fun to try and bring a
V7 system up on uucp+mail. But will it (delivermail?) do bang paths?!
Cheers, Warren
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