Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!mike
From: mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Problems with email
Keywords: email, registry
Message-ID: <1664@tuvie>
Date: 6 Jul 90 14:20:50 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Lines: 26

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature (on Apollos you never
quite know :-(, but here comes my problem:

Our mail works OK as long as the registry is available, but
when the registry is down (we do not have slave registries), then 
/bsd4.3/bin/mail will not deliver mail to the recipients. Now the 
problem seems to be that the mailer cannot acquire the gid of mail, 
but about this I'm not too sure. The mailer does not seem to return 
an error code (or does /usr/lib/sendmail ignore it ?), whenever 
this happens. The log file contains the status report Stat=Sent, but
the mail is nowhere to be found (except on /dev/null).
Has anybody had a similar problem and if so, how was it solved 
(without resorting to slave registries)?

BTW, the prototype sendmail configuration files supplied in the sys5 version of
/usr/lib are buggy: for the local mailer, /bin/mail is invoked with the 
bsd options which are not compatible to the sys5 options. Beware!

					bye,
						mike
       ____  ____
      /   / / / /   Michael K. Gschwind             mike@vlsivie.at
     /   / / / /    Technical University, Vienna    mike@vlsivie.uucp
     ---/           Voice: (++43).1.58801 8144      e182202@awituw01.bitnet
       /            Fax:   (++43).1.569697
   ___/