I installed smail from the stable tree, and the test to the linux-counter worked. However the machine refused to receive mail. The problem is that smail is not installed as a daemon, and the smtpd line in inetd.conf is commented out, and remains so, so that there's nothing to take care of the message.
Since smail is intended as a replacement of sendmail, perhaps it should be installed in the same way, as a daemon. If the machine receives many msgs. a day this is better than invoking smtpd from inted. This is how I set my machine up now. Carlos
