Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wa3wbu!john
From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Honey Danbar and Smail2.5
Message-ID: <457@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 02:14:10 GMT
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
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   I'm experiencing a problem with Smail since installing HDB uucp.

   I'm running Microport 2.3U and initially I was using plain UUCP and 
Smail2.5. Everything works fine. This weekend I installed HDB uucp. It
took me a bit of digging to get it going but eventually I did get it to
where it would communicate with other systems using "Uutry". 

   The problem came when I tried to send mail. I get my News and mail through
UUNET but have a couple other systems that I communicate with directly.
This has been the case for many months. After installing HDB, whenever
I would try and send mail to one of these local sites, it would try and
send it to uunet. Now for initial testing, my Systems file only contained
the entry for one local site, period. AT first I couldnt figure where it
was getting uunet from when I was sending to a local site. In my /usr/lib/uucp
/paths file I have "smarthost" defined as UUNET. It looks as though HDB
wants to punt *everything* to whoever you have designated as smarthost.
I took the smarthost entry out and mail didnt fail, but uux was kicking
out a "-11" error. How can I get around this Smail problem when using
HDB ?  Is there something special that needs to be set up to use the two
together. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

					John


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