mdella@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Marcos R. Della) (11/23/88)
I am having some problems getting smail2.5 to work correctly under SCO's version of xenix. The problem lies with the mailer that ALWAYS tacks its From/To header abover the Smail header that is correctly redirected into the mail system. Has anyone had this problem with mail in that it won't accept a re-direction? Or is there an unpublished toggle in mail that will allow it to accept straight text? Last question, how do you start building your pathalias file without being on the network recieving the uucp maps? Chow! Marcos Della -- ..!csustan ->!polyslo!mdella | mdella@polyslo | Whatever I said doesn't ..!sdsu ---/ Marcos R. Della | (805) 543-0135 | mean diddly as I forgot ..!csun --/ 225 N. Chorro St / it even before finishing ..!dmsd -/ San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 / typing it all out!!! :-)
cquenel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Chris Bob Quenelle) (11/23/88)
In article <6125@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mdella@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Marcos R. Della) writes: >I am having some problems getting smail2.5 to work correctly under SCO's Henry Spencer at utzoo says : "Sendmail is a bug, not a feature!" >Chow! Are you hungry Marcos ? (Marcos is the only one that can compete with jpochma). Ciao, baby. --chris
wayne@etxaz.UUCP (Wayne Johnson) (11/25/88)
In article <6125@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mdella@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Marcos R. Della) writes: >I am having some problems getting smail2.5 to work correctly under SCO's >version of xenix. The problem lies with the mailer that ALWAYS tacks its >From/To header abover the Smail header that is correctly redirected into >the mail system. > >Last question, how do you start building your pathalias file without being >on the network recieving the uucp maps? > >Chow! > >Marcos Della > We have been using smail 2.5 for about a year on machines running SCO Xenix 286 and 386 and find that it workes quite well. To get smail to work you need to understand that the Xenix mail system is not a single program but a chain of programs. /usr/bin/mail is the user interface portion of the chain. The real work is done by /usr/lib/mail/execmail, /usr/lib/mail/mail.local, /usr/bin/uux and others. /usr/lib/mail/execmail accepts formated mail, applies Xenix aliasing, and passes the mail on down the chain. To get proper headers smail should send its output to /usr/lib/mail/execmail. We do it by linking /usr/lib/mail/execmail to /bin/lmail and changeing the folowing line in smail's defs.h file: #define LMAIL(frm,sys) "/bin/lmail -f %s",frm /* SV local delivery agent */ We also found it necessary to run smail setgid bin and make the spool directory writable by group bin or mail just dissapears. We have used Elm 1.7, Mush 6.3 and Elm 2.1 with this configuration and all worked well. You can also still use the original /bin/mail. We are using Elm 2.1 now and are quite happy. Even the filter program workes with a few modifications. As for the paths file, If you do not run pathalias you can build a small file by hand. We use the Smart-Host feature of smail to send most mail to a site that does run pathalias. We then add local sites to the file by hand. With a ten line paths file we can mail to anyuser@anysite and get to almost anyone. See the man page paths.1 for the format of the paths file. -- Wayne =================================================================== Engineering Technologies Wayne Johnson Long Rifle Rd. (P.O. Box 890) {...}!uunet!etxaz!wayne Camp Verde, AZ 86322 wayne@etxaz.UUCP Voice: (602) 567-5198