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From: jhc@mtunx.ATT.COM (Jonathan Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Honey Danbar and Smail2.5
Message-ID: <1368@mtunx.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 88 17:49:48 GMT
References: <457@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Reply-To: jhc@mtunx.ATT.COM (Jonathan Clark)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <457@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) is having
a problem using smail after he's just installed HDB.

He mentions that his Systems file only contains one entry - a local
system - for testing purposes.

When smail queues mail, it does a uux. If this fails, then the mail is
re-sent via SMART-HOST. Since there is only one system in his Systems
file, the uux will *always* fail (except to that system, of course), and
the mail will get redirected via his smart-host. Simply putting the names
of the systems he actually communicates with into his Systems file should
solve the problem.

For the record, HDB does not look in the paths file, neither is it going to
do anything with a uucp job when it can't get to the target machine, except
return it to you with a nasty message.

-- 
jonathan.clark@mtune.att.com, attmail!jonathan

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for some noble purpose.