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From: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Dermot Tynan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Why can't I use UUNET's smail?  Smail for Xenix worthwhile?
Summary: checking smail paths.
Message-ID: <2364@sultra.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 19:14:45 GMT
References: <347@intek01.UUCP>
Organization: Ultrasystems DSI, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <347@intek01.UUCP>, mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>
>	[Stuff about having mail returned]
>

I find that the best way to check what smail is doing, is to use the
illustrious -A option.  I have found a lot of problems in my paths file
by doing this.  If you are getting mail bounced back, try this;

smail -A anyone@system-x

smail will then print either of two things (at least my configuration will),
	a)	it will show a complete UUCP bang-path, which you can
		check to see if it looks OK, or
	b)	it will show
			anyone@system-x
		meaning it didn't resolve the path.  My mailer will then get
		seriously ill, when it sees the '@'.
This is a good place to start looking for problems.  Also, I experiment with
lots of different variants, and know what my particular configuration will do.
						- Der
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