Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!panix!alexis From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: uucp scripts (continued) Message-ID: <1990Nov8.120740.19410@panix.uucp> Date: 8 Nov 90 12:07:40 GMT References: Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY Lines: 33 In article MATLEVAN@EKU (Jerry LeVan) writes: >However mail does not seem to work! I have >tried > mail name!user and > mailx name!user and > rmail name!user >After I exit the mail programs, nothing happens, >no log files are created in the spool area, The phone >never goes off hook etc. Seems like the letter drops >into a black hole! > >If UUCP works why does mail not work? (I am using ksh) This stuff is tricky. There are several points: 1) currently, Apple ships a sample /usr/lib/sendmail.cf which contains information which would put bogus headers on out-system mail. 2) To avoid sending such mail, they also graciously supply you with a zero byte long sendmail.fc. No wonder your mail goes nowhere... 3) They also supply the m4 stuff to build a real sendmail.cf but their prototypes are very broken for uucp. Bang paths will work but internet- style stuff fails. The anser, fortunately, is simple. Scarf up the sendmail.cf file I posted a few days ago, install it, and go. Shouldn't take more than five minutes. Good luck, --- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis