mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) (09/08/88)
I recently had cause to send E-mail to user "macsmith@athena.mit.edu" on ARPAnet for the first time, and since UUNET has smail and I'm directly connected, I thought "no problem", it's just: uunet!macsmith@athena.mit.edu But that didn't work. So I posted a note to comp.unix.questions (the wrong place, I'm told) asking "How do I send mail to ARPA?" and got back replies uunet!macsmith%athena.mit.edu and uunet!athena.mit.edu!macsmith and uunet!macsmith%athena.mit.edu.ARPA@UUNET.UU.NET and one or two others, all of which I tried and none of which worked. I don't understand why not. I thought the idea of smail was to let you address email by user@site.domain; if I get my mail to uunet, why doesn't its smail take over from there? Is there a "precedence" problem; that is, does uunet!macsmith always parse as SITE "macsmith"? And is there a way around this? Even if there is, is there some compelling reason I should be running smail myself on my single-user 286 Xenix box? Is there some tweak needed to make the standard smail distribution work with 286 Xenix? I had been half-following the 'smail-and-domain-registry' discussion in comp.mail.uucp not thinking it applied much to me, so ... forgive me if I'm treading well-worn ground, and thanks in advance. -- Mark McWiggins UUCP: uunet!intek01!mark DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong. INTERNET: intek01!mark@uunet.uu.net (206) 455-9935
dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Dermot Tynan) (09/16/88)
In article <347@intek01.UUCP>, mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes: > > [Stuff about having mail returned] > I find that the best way to check what smail is doing, is to use the illustrious -A option. I have found a lot of problems in my paths file by doing this. If you are getting mail bounced back, try this; smail -A anyone@system-x smail will then print either of two things (at least my configuration will), a) it will show a complete UUCP bang-path, which you can check to see if it looks OK, or b) it will show anyone@system-x meaning it didn't resolve the path. My mailer will then get seriously ill, when it sees the '@'. This is a good place to start looking for problems. Also, I experiment with lots of different variants, and know what my particular configuration will do. - Der -- Reply: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Dermot Tynan @ Tynan Computers) {mips,pyramid}!sultra!dtynan Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by... [WBY]