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From: jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Sendmail on ISC 2.2
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.194015.3148@crom2.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 91 19:40:15 GMT
References: <113@w3vh.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Abbey Technologies - Athens GA
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In <113@w3vh.UUCP> rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) writes:

> My situation is so simple, it seems ridiculous to believe I can't
> configure sendmail/smail (as delivered on ISC 2.2) to do this, but before
> I pull my hair out I'd like a reality check from the net.
>
> All I want to do is punt every uucp *and* domain-style address to uunet
> via uucp.  That's it.
>
> None of the provided sendmail.cf files do the trick, and I'm not sure
> I want to spend the rest of my life becoming a sendmail guru.  If someone
> could mail me a working .cf file, I'd be most grateful.
>
> Oh, yes -- smart-host is defined in /etc/default/smail and in a skeleton
> /usr/lib/uucp/paths file as uunet, so I don't think that's the problem.

     Amen!  I also am using ISC 2.2's sendmail/smail and would like to have
some simple means of using @-style addresses while I fight the battle of
making pathalias compile and otherwise setting up a smart mailer.  I'm using
the unmodified sendmail.cf that ISC supplies for uucp-only sites.

In /usr/default/smail I have

     SMARTHOST=smart-host
     PATHS=/usr/lib/uucp/paths

(These entries weren't put there by me; all I did was uncomment some lines
that were already in the file as distributed.)

In /usr/lib/uucp/paths I have

     smart-host nstar!%s95

(This entry was created by me, not pathalias, by analogy with the extremely
meager examples given in paths(5) so it may be messed up.)

      All I want is for the mail system to accept @-style addresses, decide
they're undeliverable, and kick them up to smart-host for parsing instead of
bouncing them back to the sender, which is what happens now.  What (or
what-all) have I overlooked?

                                           Thanks very much,
                                           James P. H. Fuller
                                           jim%crom2@nstar.rn.com