alan@ahmcs.uucp (Alan Mintz) (06/03/91)
Has anybody had any experience with trying to get the XENIX /usr/bin/mail to correctly recognize the (sort-of) documented alias files in /usr/lib/mail ? I am trying to get it to do the following, since I currently don't have the time to get a real mailer up and running: uunet <-----> ahmcs <------> mq ahmcs.mq.com main.mq.com uunet currently translates any mail headed for user@mq.com to ahmcs!user. Mail addressed to user@main.mq.com, however, translates to ahmcs!main.mq.com!user. What I want "mail" on the machine "ahmcs" to do is to translate the "main.mq.com" to "mq". Thus, mail addressed to user@main.mq.com would turn into uunet!ahmcs!mq!user. It would seem like the following line in maliases would do the trick: main.mq.com: mq! except it doesn't. Anybody have a clue as to how I can do this without resorting to a different mailer ? -- < Alan H. Mintz | alan@mq.com | ...!uunet!ahmcs!alan >
chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) (06/04/91)
In article <197@ahmcs.uucp> alan@ahmcs.uucp (Alan Mintz) writes: >Anybody have a clue as to how I can do this without resorting to a different >mailer ? No. Even if you could get aliases doing what you want, you still have the brick wall of SCO's stock mail system treating `@' in an address as a syntax error. You will find that installing smail2.5 will be the quickest and easiest route to the solution you want. It's a nice coincidence that the easiest thing to do is also the right thing to do. -- Chip Rosenthal <chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM> | Don't play that Unicom Systems Development 512-482-8260 | loud, Mr. Collins.