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From: lee@gdc.portal.com (Seng-Poh Lee, (203) 758-1811 Ext 7728)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: How to make mail forward unresolved local mail to uucp host?
Message-ID: <1048@gdc.portal.com>
Date: 1 Jan 91 18:28:15 GMT
References: <881@gdc.portal.com> <206@unikla.ASK.SE>
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT
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> The solution to the problem that I used was to get the smail sources from
> our neighbor archive site and use that instead of the standard mailer that
> comes with xenix. Smail handles all outgoing mail and has the ability to
> forward all unknown mailadresses to an other system.
> 
> The version I have used is smail 2.5.
> 

Thanks to the same suggestions from other people, I have just tried Smail 2.5.
But for some reason, I couldn't get the smart-host option to work correctly. I
don't know what I did wrong. I compiled all the files fine, and placed them in
the right directories. Local mail works fine and all the headers are correct. I
made a /usr/lib/uucp/paths file with a single entry of:

smart-host     site!%s     0

(site is my smart neighbour)

I compiled smail without sendmail option and with smart-host. If I try to mail
to a domain based name, say,  $ mail lee@gdc.portal.com, all I get back is mail
that failed. The message is "Couldn't parse 'lee' @ 'gdc.portal.com'" or
something like that.

However, even if I could get this to work, the price seems to be too great. The
smail mail interface doesn't have all the nifty ~ commands that the Xenix
mailer has. Does anyone know if Smail 3.0 or ELM have a better mail interface?



Seng-Poh Lee                            lee@gdc.portal.com