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From: lee@gdc.portal.com (Seng-Poh Lee, (203) 758-1811 Ext 7728)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: How to make mail forward unresolved local mail to uucp host?
Message-ID: <881@gdc.portal.com>
Date: 28 Dec 90 18:49:04 GMT
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT
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I currently run a standard Xenix system with only one dial-up connection. My
one and only uucp neighbour is an Internet site. When I send mail out to
Internet addresses, I have to type the address as "site!user@host.domain.com",
where site is my uucp neighbour. My mail system (Xenix 286 V2.2.1) doesn't
appear to know how to forward unresolved local mail (or at least I can't find
out!). I guess the ELM mail system supports this via it's sendmail, etc.

My question is;

How  much of my mail system do I have to upgrade just so I can type
user@host.domain.com and have mail automatically forward it to my Internet
neighbour? My Internet neighbour can set his sendmail to keep my address in
domain style i.e.  user%site.uucp@site.com, which is what I want. I have no
need for SMTP or anything like that. At work, I have a HP-UX station connected
up via uucp, and I modified the sendmail.cfg file to send ALL unresolved mail
via uucp to its Internet neighbour (even domain based addresses). I am trying
to achive the same thing on my home Xenix system. The HP came with senmail all
set up. My Xenix doesn't.

Any infomation from die-hard ELM mailers (or any other mail system) out there
would be  greatly appreciated.

Seng-Poh Lee                           lee@gdc.portal.com
                                       also cc to: lee%splee.uucp@hsi.com