robert@weitek.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) (07/31/87)
I am having trouble sending mail to two SCO XENIX machines via uucp.
I'm running a 4.2 BSD VAX 11/780. The XENIX machines have no trouble
sending mail to me, but mail sent to them vanishes without trace.
Suggestions, anyone?
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Robert Plamondon
UUCP: {pyramid,cae780}!weitek!robert
ARPA: pyramid!weitek!robert@decwrl.arpa
"It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing"peter@citcom.UUCP (Peter Klosky) (07/31/87)
> I am having trouble sending mail to two SCO XENIX machines via uucp. > I'm running a 4.2 BSD VAX 11/780. The XENIX machines have no trouble > sending mail to me, but mail sent to them vanishes without trace. In this article, I present: 1. A query about the specific details of the report above. 2. A query about why uucp gives trouble on my system. What is your system set-up like there? Are you running async lines or ethernet cards? When you send the mail from the 4.2 machine, does the /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE indicate a request was queued? Given that it does, does /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE indicate the XENIX machine got the message? We had a very nice mail network built with async lines that allowed two-way mail with our Sun net; we broke this two-way mail when we added ethernet cards. My problem here is that our Sun thinks it can send mail to the XENIX machine on the ethernet because the XENIX machine has an address in /etc/hosts. The XENIX machine does not have a server listening, however, as near as we can tell. Any help? -- Peter Klosky, Citcom Systems (materiel de telecommunications) seismo!vrdxhq!baskin!citcom!peter (703) 689-2800 x 235
john@xanth.UUCP (John Owens) (08/05/87)
In article <44@citcom.UUCP>, peter@citcom.UUCP (Peter Klosky) writes: > My problem here is that our Sun thinks it can send mail to the > XENIX machine on the ethernet because the XENIX machine has an > address in /etc/hosts. The XENIX machine does not have a server > listening, however, as near as we can tell. Any help? No TCP/IP implementation that I've yet seen for Xenix implements SMTP, the most common Internet mail protocol. You'll need to have sendmail on the Suns not try to use the "ether" mailer for your Xenix system, but the "uucp" mailer. (You'll have to read up on sendmail.cf files and such.) -- John Owens Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia, USA john@ODU.EDU old arpa: john%odu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET +1 804 440 4529 old uucp: {decuac,harvard,hoptoad,mcnc}!xanth!john