eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi) (09/09/89)
Hi. I've been having a little problem with my mail lately, and was hoping someone could come to my rescue. I run elm and smail on a Xenix 386. I am connected to some local PCs that run uupc-mail. The local and uucp mail to the PCs run fine. Last week I made a TCP-IP connection to a local machine. Mail moves well over that connection using the vendor supplied SMTP package. My problem is that I would like to have elm/smail hand mail over to the SMTP package when appropriate. Currently any bang or domain address mail goes to uux, when I use elm. Can I make smail cognizant of the fact that I have a TCP host connected and route mail to it? Is this something that requires sendmail, and if so, does anyone know where I could locate a copy of it? I would appreciate any insight that anyone could offer. I have crossposted this to a few groups, and so would prefer email replies where possible. Thanks very much, Dewey Paciaffi eddjp@althea.UUCP
chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) (09/10/89)
In article <301@althea.UUCP> eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi) writes: >Can I make smail cognizant of the fact that I have a TCP host connected >and route mail to it? Is this something that requires sendmail, and if >so, does anyone know where I could locate a copy of it? You don't mention the vendor, but I faced this problem when I tried to use Excelan's SMTP. At the time, the solution required two parts, and the second part hinged upon Chip Salzenberg's deliver program. The first part is to use the little-known but documented feature of pathalias to generate something besides "bang-paths". For example, if you just say: mysite othersite(COST) then pathalias will say: othersite!%s However, if you say: mysite %othersite(COST) then pathalias will say: %s%%othersite (the double-% sprintf's down to user%othersite) To smail, this is a local address, and therefore invokes the local delivery agent rather than uux. The second step is to use "deliver" rather than "execmail" as the local delivery agent. You then may make an entry in your system delivery control file which recognizes: *%othersite and passes it off to the SMTP client for delivery. This solution works, but is a bit ugly because of all the pieces you need to maintain. "Deliver" is available from your friendly neighborhood comp.sources.unix archives, with a newer version in the queue for release (if I put on my optimist's hat). -- Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337 Someday the whole country will be one big "Metroplex" - Zippy's friend Griffy
chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (09/13/89)
According to eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi): >My problem is that I would like to have elm/smail hand mail over to the >SMTP package when appropriate. Currently any bang or domain address mail >goes to uux, when I use elm. My solution to this problem is: 1. Use a TCP/IP implementation that has a socket library; in my case, it's SCO TCP/IP controlled release. 2. Get Smail 3.1. 3. Compile Smail 3 with "HAVE_BSD_NETWORKING=yes" in configuration. 4. Install Smail 3 as /usr/lib/sendmail. 5. Configure Elm to use /usr/lib/sendmail. 6. Let Smail 3 figure out how to deliver each message. Of course, Smail 3 isn't generally available. IMHO, the solution posted by Chip Rosenthal using Deliver is the next best idea. -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> "If you push something hard enough, it will fall over." -- Fudd's First Law of Opposition
randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) (09/14/89)
In article <250D4A4A.6226@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
] 2. Get Smail 3.1.
]Of course, Smail 3 isn't generally available.
How does one go about getting 3.1? I have 3.0, but is too
buggy to use (on a SysVr3.1 system).
-randy
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Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us