soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) (09/13/88)
Running on the NCR Tower XP Smail 2.5 core dumps when I try to use include files in the alias file. Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions on what to look for? -- Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment UUCP: uunet!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley VOICE: +1 416 323 2623 OR: soley@ontenv.UUCP
barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett) (04/09/91)
In article <1991Apr7.190656.3989@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca>, timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes: > I've recently compiled smail 2.5 under SCO Xenix 2.3.2, and have been > getting the darndest -intermittent- problem I've ever seen. Here's > a sample from the /tmp/mail.log file: > > Apr 6 23:31: /usr/bin/uux -atimk -r - xenitec!rmail \ > '(xenitec.on.ca!uwslh.slh.wisc.edu,!kriss)', from timk, 2494 bytes > > Where's the "," between the machine "!" path and the username > coming from? Probably from outside smail. If you send a message addressed like this: To: user@some.dom.ain, another@some.where.else then your user agent may be passing the comma to smail in the envelope addresses (I know mailx on my system has this problem). Smail does nothing special to get rid of such a comma, but perhaps your previous (non-smail) MTA did get rid of it. The fix may be as simple as omitting the commas when you type the addresses in the To: line. Smail will insert commas in the header if your user agent doesn't, but you don't want commas in the envelope addresses. --apb Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za UUCP: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett
timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) (04/12/91)
In article <1991Apr09.151840.23459@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett) writes: >In article <1991Apr7.190656.3989@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca>, >timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes: >> I've recently compiled smail 2.5 under SCO Xenix 2.3.2, and have been >> getting the darndest -intermittent- problem I've ever seen. Here's >> a sample from the /tmp/mail.log file: >> >> Apr 6 23:31: /usr/bin/uux -atimk -r - xenitec!rmail \ >> '(xenitec.on.ca!uwslh.slh.wisc.edu,!kriss)', from timk, 2494 bytes >> >> Where's the "," between the machine "!" path and the username >> coming from? > >Probably from outside smail. If you send a message addressed like this: > To: user@some.dom.ain, another@some.where.else >then your user agent may be passing the comma to smail in the envelope >addresses (I know mailx on my system has this problem). Smail does >nothing special to get rid of such a comma, but perhaps your previous >(non-smail) MTA did get rid of it. I wish that was it. In the above example I was mailing to one address "kriss@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu", with no other addresses tacked on. >The fix may be as simple as omitting the commas when you type the >addresses in the To: line. Smail will insert commas in the header if >your user agent doesn't, but you don't want commas in the envelope >addresses. Sounds like a decent idea. I think I've solved the problem (at least, I haven't gotten any bounced message recently) by ripping out all of smail and mush, rm'ing all the mail-related stuff, re-installing the original Xenix mail and execmail prog's, then re-installing smail. Iterated on said procedure 5 times, and eventually everything came together.:-) /2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Kuehn TDK Consulting Services (519)-888-0766 timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca -or- !{watmath|lsuc}!xenitec!wynnds!timk Valpo EE turned loose on unsuspecting world! News at 11!