From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 13:56:35 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA14242 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:56:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.153]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA14234 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00399; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:56:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:56:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Patrick Linstruth cc: support@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Post.Office Email Software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Patrick Linstruth wrote: > We're trying get an email software package call Post.Office off our > NT box and onto FreeBSD. Of course, Software.Com does not support > FreeBSD, but they do have a BSDI version. (We don't know why FreeBSD > has such lousy third-party software support. It's by far the best > Unix, commerical and free.) > > Seeing as FreeBSD has BSDI compatibility built into 2.1.5, we thought > we'd give it a shot. > > When running the install program, we get a "Bus error - core dumped". > > We thought you might be interested in seeing if this BSDI program could > be made to work under FreeBSD. We'll do anything to get it off of our > NT box! > > The Post.Office software can be found at www.software.com. Is post.office a proprietary mail server, or does it do standard Internet SMTP? 2.1.5 doesn't have BSDi 2.x support; try upgrading to 2.2-ALPHA. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon..edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major