mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) (02/17/91)
I'm having a slight problem with smail 2.5. I'm running Xenix/286 v2.2.3, with /usr/lib/mail/execmail replaced by Deliver and /bin/rmail and friends replaced with their smail counterparts. My /usr/lib/uucp/paths file is rather short, listing only my immediate UUCP neighbors plus a smart-host. The problem manifests itself when someone attempts to send mail to a domain address not in the paths file; for example, "sco-list-request@uunet.uu.net". Instead of sending the mail to the defined smart-host for further resolution, smail just returns it to the sender with an address resolution error. "smail -d" indicates that smail tries to resolve the host to ".uunet.uu.net", then "uunet.uu.net", then ".uu.net", then "uu.net", then ".net", and finally "net". When all these fail, it decides that the mail is undeliverable and returns it to the sender. Curiously, if you invoke smail in rabid-rerouting mode (-R), things work okay. After trying all the different permutations of uunet.uu.net, smail looks for the smart-host and sends it there. Why is this happening? What can I do to fix it? Any ideas? -- Marc Unangst | "I think I have a bad disk. Even though I mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | folded it to fit into my drive, it still ...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju | doesn't work..." -Caller to a tech support line
barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett) (02/20/91)
In article <1991Feb17.054324.9312@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: > I'm having a slight problem with smail 2.5. > [...] > Instead of sending the mail to the defined smart-host for further > resolution, smail just returns it to the sender with an address > resolution error. > > Curiously, if you invoke smail in rabid-rerouting mode (-R), things > work okay. This is one of the things I fixed in my version of smail2.5. The apbmje900117 patches to smail2.5 have never been posted to the net, and there seems to be sufficient interest, so I am posting them to alt.sources now. --apb Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za (or %ee.und.ac.za@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu) UUCP: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett PSI-Mail: PSI%(6550)13601353::BARRETT