[comp.mail.misc] prob w/smail 2.5 mail to domain addr

jmiller@bgsuvax.UUCP (Jim Miller) (08/14/90)

I am trying to get smail2.5 configured on a 3B2 w/ Sys V 2.0.4 without sendmail.
Everything has compiled and installed OK,  but the problem I am having is with 
domain addresses that are being punted to my smart-host for delivery.  
 
Here's the setup:  My machine's name is amber, with a uucp link to my smarthost.
My smarthost is "bgsuvax" (aka andy.bgsu.edu) with uucp and SMTP links to the 
outside world.  Bgsuvax is running Sendmail 5.61. For incoming mail, I have a 
MX record for 'amber.bgsu.edu' pointing to 'andy.bgsu.edu'.
 
The problem is occurring when I send mail from my system (amber) to any 
machine not explicitly listed in my paths file.  Say, for instance, I mail to 
'echo@omnigate.clarkson.edu'. The command file sent to bgsuvax would contain:
 
U (whatever)
.
.
.
C rmail omnigate.clarkson.edu!echo
 
My smarthost sees the bang path on the rmail command, and tries to ship
the mail out via UUCP to never-never land.  My question is: can Smail be
configured to write the above command as 'C rmail echo@omnigate.clarkson.edu'.
 
This is the first mail software I have set up, so I am kind of a novice.
Am I missing something really obvious?
 
Here's part of what I have in defs.h:
 
#define HOSTNAME	"amber"		/* literal name */
#define HOSTDOMAIN	"amber.bgsu.edu"	/* overrides default HOSTNAME.MYDOM */
#define MYDOM		".bgsu.edu"		/* literal domain suffix */
#define SMARTHOST  "bgsuvax"	/* pathalias alias for relay host */
 
And a 'grep bgsuvax /usr/lib/uucp/paths':
 
.bgsu.edu	bgsuvax!%s	500
bgsuvax	bgsuvax!%s	500
smart-host	bgsuvax!%s	500
 
Any suggestions and help will be very much appreciated!
 
Thank you in advance!
 
Jim Miller
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