Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:1215 comp.unix.xenix:3139 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ocsmd!hawkeye!van From: van@hawkeye.uucp (Van Gale) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: sendmail sources needed for xenix Keywords: sendmail ethernet uucp xenix Message-ID: <147@ocsmd.uu.NET> Date: 26 Aug 88 16:09:14 GMT References: <638@ness386.swbt.COM> Sender: usenet@ocsmd.uu.NET Reply-To: van@ocsmd.uu.net (Van Gale) Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 37 In article <638@ness386.swbt.COM> mechsfm@ness386.swbt.COM (Shawn McDonald 512+377-6226) writes: >I am currently running Xenix 2.2.3 on a 386 with an Excelan 205e ethernet >card. The problem I am having is setting up mail and uucp so that the >machine is able to determine whether to route a request through the >normal lines ( i.e. telephone lines ), or to use the ethernet connections >to any local hosts. To a certain extent sendmail will do what you need. It will, of course, route mail to the proper delivery agent. What it won't do, at least under Xenix with the Excelan software, is deliver via SMTP. There are some interesting problems with the Excelan socket library that would require MUCHO hack and slash to the sendmail SMTP code to get it working. (I think somebody in Cal. has sendmail SMTP working with Excelan under Sys V/386 so the Excelan library for that system must be more complete). The easiest thing to do is gross, and doesn't work completely. This is to have sendmail deliver SMTP mail to the Excelan SMTP delivery agent, and hack (i.e. binary patch) the Excelan SMTP daemon to feed incoming mail to sendmail. The reason this doesn't work fully is that Excelan, in their infinite wisdom, decided since Xenix /usr/bin/mail doesn't support RFC822 addresses in the From: field they wouldn't either. So, if Excelan SMTP gets mail with a "From: Van Gale " it comes out the other end as "From: Van, Gale,