jim@aob.uucp (Jim Anderson) (09/07/86)
I am running an Altos 2086. I just got smail running well, except for one little problem. There is a program called /usr/bin/Mail that wants to look in a file called /usr/lib/mail/aliases.hash for aliasing. The problem is that it won't recognize name@site unless that name is actually in the alias file. The error message is 'name@site' is not a valid user' I can get it to mail correctly if I put the line: jim@aob:"|fixaddress" where fixaddress throws away the from line from Mail, deletes the To: line from the message and passes the remainder of the message to smail with all the To: names. This much works fine. I think the Mail program is a Berkeley program, but I am not sure. What can I put in the alias file to make it recognize the domain addressing and pass it to smail (or at least fixaddress)? I got smail working just before I left for Chicago for 3 days. I ran into a small problem with smail wanting to mail "all" messages to their destination. This would be fine, except that the calendar program puts mail at the end of a pipe. /bin/mail does not send any message if there is no text to it. I fixed it by making a small change to deliver() and rline() to ignore the mail message if the first line of input was EOF. I don't have time right now to find the actual lines to change, but it only involved changing about 4-5 lines. If there is any interest in these changes, I will dig out exactly what I did. Jim Anderson caip!dayton!meccts!dicome!aob!jim (preferred) ihnp4!dicome!aob!jim (alternate)