cluther@supernet.UUCP (Clay Luther) (07/14/90)
I recently obtained smail 3.17 as a solution for a certain problem we have
at our site. I had heard that smail allowed you to easily define new
routers/transports, more so that sendmail.
I have read the documention, but I am kinda unclear on how I can do the
following:
We have a host connected to us via tokenring. We have a program, called xcmd,
which performs the exact same function as uux except over tokenring.
When mail is sent to this host, I want smail to use xcmd (with parameters)
rather than uux. There is only one host that smail would have to do this
for. The xcmd program *does* work.
We are a SysVr3 site.
Thanks!
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iex!supernet!cluther@uunet.UU.NETles@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (07/20/90)
In article <1990Jul13.223745.24604@supernet.UUCP> cluther@supernet.UUCP (Clay Luther) writes: >I recently obtained smail 3.17 as a solution for a certain problem we have >at our site. I had heard that smail allowed you to easily define new >routers/transports, more so that sendmail. You may want to pick up 3.18 somewhere. It's on uunet as smail3.1.19.Z (oddly enough). >We have a host connected to us via tokenring. We have a program, called xcmd, >which performs the exact same function as uux except over tokenring. >When mail is sent to this host, I want smail to use xcmd (with parameters) >rather than uux. There is only one host that smail would have to do this >for. The xcmd program *does* work. Copy the config, router, and transport files from the samples/generic directory in the smail distribution into your installed smail lib directory. Make sure you have an entry in your paths file for this host that says: host host!%s (I like to put all the uucp neighbors here as well to save running uuname to find them). In the "pathalias" router entry, change the line: transport = uux to method = uucp Create a directory called "methods" in the smail lib directory (or set the name you want in the config file), and create a file named uucp in this directory containing: hostname xcmd * uux Now edit the "transports" file. Duplicate the entire 5 or 6 line entry describing the uux or demand transport, change the name to xcmd, and change the "cmd" line to do whatever you need. Test it with: smail -v200 -N hostname!user ...some input <EOT> and watch the debug output for the lookup and generated command. (The -N will prevent actual delivery). Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us
tron@tolerant.com (Ron Karr) (07/22/90)
In article <1990Jul19.171942.24780@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >You may want to pick up 3.18 somewhere. It's on uunet as smail3.1.19.Z >(oddly enough). Time for a Smail3 taxonomy lesson, I suppose. Here are the versions that people are most likely to read about: 3.1.17: A release that restructured major parts of the source code and was a fairly extensive cleanup of the previous releases. If you are running this, then you should be in good a shape, or in as good a shape as currently available Smail3 releases will put you. 3.1.18: This includes a fix that affects systems where fopen(foo, "a") does not set the O_APPEND flag. This is the only interesting thing fixed in the 3.1.18.1 release. 3.1.19: This is the release that is available on uunet. The only difference between the 3.1.18 release and this release is the addition of a new README file, and a new samples/bigsite directory. I didn't change the actually release number in the source because the smail3 release build area was scattered around too much, so I wasn't in a position to update any of the files under source control. Given this, I did not want the release to include any changes to existing files, including the files that define the release number. This was quite probably a mistake, since it is confusing. 3.2: This refers to a mythical release which is what I really want to release to the world. Since I determined that I would not have the time to complete this, I gave the primary tasks for completing this to someone else. Class is over for today. -- tron |-<=>-| ARPAnet: tolsoft!tron@apple.com tron@tolerant.com UUCPnet: {amdahl,apple,hoptoad}!tolsoft!tron