Xref: utzoo comp.mail.elm:2795 comp.mail.uucp:4619 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Elm Configure (multiple machines = one) Message-ID: <96H4NW6@ficc.ferranti.com> Date: 6 Jul 90 12:54:15 GMT References: <642@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> <1990Jul5.175844.141@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 28 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > We have a network of some 30 machines that look like one machine to mail. In article <1990Jul5.175844.141@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > Can you explain a bit more about how you did this and what problems > you encountered? The main problems hae been due to the fact that the C compiler we have is broken. For the elm part of things, I compiled it with a fixed host name and have it running through smail 2.5. I have smail 2.5 modified to insist that all machines on the Xenix network are really "ficc.ferranti.com". I have a GLOBALNAME define that is referenced in headers.c in 3 places: in generating the default To and From lines, and where it checks for DOMAIN and hostdomain to strip them off. Then I have a "users" file :include:ed from aliases that maps the user name to a real user@system name. I also hacked smail 2.5 to grok the % hack. > The main question I have is whether it would be better to modify > smail to be able to put different things on the From_ line, depending > on the destination, or to change all our external uucp connections to > use the MYNAME= feature of HDB uucp to actually look like a single machine > from the outside? All our external UUCP connections are through a single machine. I have smail feeding a program (currently a shell script) in /usr/lib/smail/router that figures what actual link to send mail through (network, internal UUCP, or external UUCP). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.