Re: smtpserver policy database problem

[mea@nic.funet.fi]

> On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Roy C Bixler wrote:
> 
> > I'm glad to hear you solved your Z-mailer configuration problem, but it
> > seems like you were more a victim of a buggy package than of incomplete
> > Z-mailer documentation.  Any package worth its salt should set up
> > /etc/mail.conf for you (for example, the Debian package does.)  Does your
> > Z-mailer package include a copy of the INSTALL file from the top-level
> > directory of the Z-mailer source?  That also would have helped you
> > greatly. 
> 
> If I'm a victim of a buggy package, then, by your definition,
> zmailer-2.99.49p9.tar.gz at ftp.funet.fi is a buggy package (no offense
> Matti). =) After I compiled and installed zmailer as per the INSTALL
> document, I still couldn't send mail because there is no default
> smtp-policy database, nor does the install document mention it.

	Indeed it does not mention it.

	I have now mended that with modest overhauling of the file,
	and adding a couple of doc/guides/ files also.

	They are yet only in my CVS, but I try to make a real release
	soon too.

...
> Kevin
> 
> - --
> Kevin Nikiforuk				knikifor@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>