mam@mamnix.hamm.sub.org (Michael A. Meiszl) (01/20/91)
the facts: waffle 1.63 smail 3.1.18 xenix 2.3.3 the problem: a mailbox user write a mail to the outside world. The mail is fed into smail with the parameter -t (sendmail compatible). Smail takes the mail, copies it into input trys to find a route und deletes the mail without notice. I've tracked it down so far that smail builds up a hash table delimiting the talble with a NULL entry. This works fine for normal users or incoming mail but aborts when called from the bbs (I should say that "setname" is in effect). If called from the bbs smail's hash routine things the name of the recipient is "already hashed" and aborts the routers with "null adress" error. Since the directors and routers never see the target adress no delivery is done. Smail terminates without an error, because it thinks, there has never been a message. Amazingly bbs-users can mail to normal users on the same machine but can't send anything to the net. I would call this a very strange program interaction. Any hints??? mam -- Michael A. Meiszl, Tomsonstr. 25, 4700 Hamm 1 Internet: mam@hamm.sub.org Voice: 02381/889121 Fax : 02381/880084 Fido : NO FIDO ANYMORE DHST : 02381/880083 Traily: 02381/880081 Login : box | uucp | nuucp