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From: john@xanth.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Trouble sending mail to SCO Xenix system
Message-ID: <1830@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 21:11:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1830
Posted: Tue Aug  4 21:11:57 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Aug-87 04:59:39 EDT
References: <368@attila.weitek.UUCP> <44@citcom.UUCP>
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <44@citcom.UUCP>, peter@citcom.UUCP (Peter Klosky) writes:
> My problem here is that our Sun thinks it can send mail to the
> XENIX machine on the ethernet because the XENIX machine has an 
> address in /etc/hosts.  The XENIX machine does not have a server
> listening, however, as near as we can tell.  Any help?

No TCP/IP implementation that I've yet seen for Xenix implements SMTP,
the most common Internet mail protocol.  You'll need to have sendmail
on the Suns not try to use the "ether" mailer for your Xenix system,
but the "uucp" mailer.  (You'll have to read up on sendmail.cf files
and such.)
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