tpf@pyr.gatech.EDU (Tom Friedel) (09/27/89)
I am running 386/ix (Sysv 3.2 with sendmail) and have a mailer problem. I am running smail 2.5. I am using emory to resolve domain and uucp addresses for me. This is done by a path's entry of smart-host emory!%s I want to mail to an address like 71131.3234@compuserve.com (dots on either side of the '@'), but smail sends this out as emory!copuserve.com!71131.3234 which emory rejects. Emory will handle emory!71131.3234@compuserve.com correctly, but I can only get this by modifying the uucp control files. I tried for quite a while to modify smail to handle this correclty but was unable to work my way through the C code. Apparently the way it works (on my system) is mailx (which I use) calls sendmail which calls smail which queues the mail. sendmail passes smail an address of the form a.b@c.d which smails resolve() reverses for me. Thanks much Tom Tom Friedel (404) 320-7624 tpf@jdyx.UUCP also: tpf@jdyx.atlanta.ga.us ...gatech!emory!jdyx!tpf Public Access Unix BBS: (404) 321-5020 "Live simply, so that others may simply live."
amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) (09/27/89)
Having sendmail call smail can cause odd things, because smail is agressively UUCP-oriented. The solution I use on our system (which also has only one UUCP link to a smart host [uunet]) is to have sendmail queue up the uux job directly, bypassing smail completely for outgoing mail. Here's the definition of the UUCP mailer from my sendmail.cf file: Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=sDFMhu, S=10, R=23, A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u) Seems to work great, and it's less filling than regular smail :-). -- Amanda Walker amanda@intercon.com