karl@polyof.poly.edu (A1 karl muhlbach (staff) ) (09/05/90)
To all fellow netters: I am trying to configure my machine which is running Interactive 2.2 to transfer my mail to a site that is willing to serve me as a gateway (Lets call this system site X). Allow me to clarify via an example. For instance say I want to email a letter to joe who is at site A.B.C. I would normally type "mail joe@A.B.C". I would like my machine to be able to realize that it cannot resolve the address locally so it is a job for site X to resolve. My connection to site X is done via a UUCP connection. The UUCP ! address convention works. If I want to send email to ted at site X I would type "mail X!ted". I would like this to be all automatic though so that the mailer has to worry where it should go. This would enable me to have connections to the Internet, UUNET and BITNET. Let me assure the quick to flame that I did indeed RTFM so there is no need for that response. The documentation is lacking in its description of the configuration. The documentation refers to a great deal of BSD files and directories that just simply don't exist under Interactive Unix 2.2. This essentially boils down to: "ANYTHING I CAN NOT RESOLVE LOCALLY SHOULD BE SENT TO SITE X FOR FURTHER DISTRIBUTION OR RETURNED IF UNRESOLVABLE." I would be very thankful to any one who could shed some light on this problem. I will be most happy to post a summary of the most effective solution. Please respond via email to me since this is the quickest method of my seeing the responses. My address is karl@polyof.poly.edu (This is not the machine that I'm trying to configure so email will reach me no problem). Thankyou all one last time and PLEASE SEND HELP! Karl M. karl@polyof.poly.edu