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From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: smail 3.1.18 and transports
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.013250.28368@techbook.com>
Date: 10 Feb 91 01:32:50 GMT
Reply-To: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
Organization: TECHbooks - Beaverton, Oregon - Public Access Unix
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I've been beating what brains I have against the docs for smail and
am having trouble figuring out how to configure it to allow another method
of transport.  I am running Waffle, a UNIX BBS program that will send RFC
standard messages out.  Unfortunately, to get mail into Waffle, you need to
run a special program called "mailin" which it provides.  The author suggests
providing an alias for each user, but with a lot of callers this quickly 
becomes impossible to maintain.  

I would like to define that mail to a specific machine (in this case it's
the "virtual machine" "wiffle" in the techbook.com domain --- there isn't
a real machine named wiffle, but this serves to differentiate between 
user "jamesd@techbook.com" who may not be the same person who uses the BBS
program with a login of jamesd) will be sent with a transport mechanism of 
"mailin" instead of the default uux.  So mail to "jamesd@wiffle.techbook.com" 
would be sent as "mailin jamesd".  I'm having trouble getting this to work 
exactly right.  I'm hoping that someone can help provide a valid setup for
such a thing.

Has anyone done such a thing?  Even if it's not exactly the same as this, 
I'd be interested in hearing how people use alternative transports.  Or if
I'm completely on the wrong track, and there's an easier way of doing this,
I'd like to know that too.

Thanks.