[comp.unix.xenix] Xenix 386 Mail help!?

mark@linqdev.UUCP (mark) (01/10/90)

Hi... I'm stumped and wonder if anybody else has experienced the same
trouble.

Our system name is 'linqdev' and we connect into the network via 'ole'
I get mail and network news just fine but if I try to reply either to
a mail message or a posting my return path drops 'ole' and sometimes
others.  EG:

Suppose I get a message from this path:

   dataio!thebes!ole!linqdev!mark   (from steves)

I am used to just typing 'r' and having the mailer (elm has same trouble!)
reverse the path for me to something like:

   ole!thebes!dataio!steves

What it actually does give me is:

   thebes!dataio!stevev

Of course my mailer says...  "No local system named thebes".  

We are running SCO Xenix 2.3.1.  As mentioned above, I get this result
with both 'mail' and 'elm'...

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Mark

  thebes!ole!linqdev!mark

neal@mnopltd.UUCP (01/11/90)

->
->Our system name is 'linqdev' and we connect into the network via 'ole'
->I get mail and network news just fine but if I try to reply either to
->a mail message or a posting my return path drops 'ole' and sometimes
->others.  EG:
->
->I am used to just typing 'r' and having the mailer (elm has same trouble!)
->reverse the path for me to something like:
->

I noticed that and asked SCO.  I thought that their mail aliases should allow
equating some things.  Alas they said I was stuck.  I ended up getting Elm and
using its alias capability.


Neal Rhodes
President
MNOP Ltd
4737 Habersham Ridge
Lilburn (atlanta) GA 30247
uunet!emory!jdyx!mnopltd!neal Or uunet!gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal