curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) (04/04/91)
I'm having some domain routing problems with smail 2.5. I have a
small local map with van-bc as my smarthost. My site is
cynic.wimsey.bc.ca and van-bc is also known as wimsey.bc.ca. However,
when I send mail to user@wimsey.bc.ca it tries to deliver it locally
instead.
smail -d user@wimsey.bc.ca
produces
res_fname: looking for 'user'
can't access /usr/local/lib/fullnames.
resolve: parse address 'user' = 'user' @ '' (LOCAL)
resolve 'user' = 'user' @ '' (LOCAL)
COMMAND: /usr/local/bin/deliver 'user'
From curt Wed Apr 3 15:13:33 1991
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Date: 3 Apr 91 15:13:33 PST (Wed)
From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson)
To: user@wimsey.bc.ca
It doesn't seem to be looking in my smail paths file for wimsey. Can
anybody help me out here?
cjs
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From article <1991Apr3.231452.2394@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>, by curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson): > I'm having some domain routing problems with smail 2.5. I have a > small local map with van-bc as my smarthost. My site is > cynic.wimsey.bc.ca and van-bc is also known as wimsey.bc.ca. However, > when I send mail to user@wimsey.bc.ca it tries to deliver it locally > instead. [..] > > It doesn't seem to be looking in my smail paths file for wimsey. I had the same problem at the time i was running the good old 2.5, and came to the conclusion that -simply- smail was not considering the LAST record of paths (i.e. the last line!). In fact, adding a dummy line to paths, like : zzzzzz %s 0 makes the damn thing work all the way! So, it might really be such a problem; let us know....;-) Paolo -- Paolo Ventafridda - Milano, ITALY | INTERNET: venta@i2ack.SUBLINK.ORG
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (04/09/91)
This sounds like the usual smail binary search problem. There is a patch for it out somewhere, it gets reposted here periodically. If it's not already in comp.sources.misc it should be. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett) (04/09/91)
In article <1991Apr3.231452.2394@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>, curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) writes: > I have a small local map with van-bc as my smarthost. My site is > cynic.wimsey.bc.ca and van-bc is also known as wimsey.bc.ca. However, > when I send mail to user@wimsey.bc.ca it tries to deliver it locally > instead. > > smail -d user@wimsey.bc.ca > produces > res_fname: looking for 'user' It looks as though you have HIDDENHOSTS set in your defs.h. Try turning it off. --apb Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za UUCP: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett