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From: steve@simon.UUCP (Steven E. Piette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: mail
Message-ID: <336@simon.uucp>
Date: 8 Jun 89 00:23:47 GMT
References: <24432@shemp.cs.ucla.edu>
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Organization: ACT, Inc., Dank Dark Cave, Algonquin, IL.
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In article <24432@shemp.cs.ucla.edu>, dieter@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Dieter Rothmeier) writes:
> 
> I am trying to get mail to work on our little 3 node
> Apollo network. We are running Domain/IX 9.7 4.2 BSD.
> At this point, no machine can send mail to any other
> machine. When I try to send mail to user@othernode using the
> verbose option, it displays 
>       ... Connecting to .ether..
>       user@othernode... Host unknown.
> 
> I am using /usr/ucb/mail.
> Telnet,ftp and rlogin work fine between all the nodes.
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Dieter Rothmeier

It sounds like your not running sendmail as a daemon on any of the other
systems. You can check this by executing netstat -a on the other systems
and looking for *.smtp open on a port. If you don't see any then edit you
rc files to add /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h. (you may just need to uncomment
the specific line in /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local). First you might like to try
using ps ax to see if sendmail is running (I must be getting old, suggesting
looking at netstat's output before thinking of ps (:-))

It's also possible that your /usr/lib/sendmail.cf file needs tweeking. If you
plan on using both SMTP and UUCP to move mail you will need to change it from
the default provided by Apollo. (their used to be a uucpproto.cf file you
could use as a starting point.)

I hope this helps...

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Steven E. Piette                              Applied Computer Technology Inc.
UUCP: {smarthost}!simon!steve                             1750 Riverwood Drive
INET: steve@simon.CHI.IL.US or spiette@SUN.COM             Algonquin, IL 60102
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