Getting smail with ISC 2.2 to work

[Robert Rothe]

rolfe at w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) writes:
>Dante_A_Nicolello at cup.portal.com writes:
>>I am trying to set up smail to send all my uucp transfers to another
>>system for address revision. I set the SMARTHOST=smart-host in the
>>/etc/default/smail file and set  a smart-host (my_smart_host)!%1
>>in my /usr/lib/uucp/paths file. Doesn't work. Either smail or sendmail
>>or whatever does not forward the mail. It just sends it back.

>I'm glad to hear someone else mention this, if only as a sanity check :-).
>I've spent an incredible amount of time trying to make sendmail/smail work
>right on a new ISC 2.2 system, to no avail.  Smail is just never getting
>invoked, it appears.  Running smail directly in test mode seems to work
>(at least the right headers are generated locally).

>My configuration is ridulously simple: uunet is my only UUCP connection, and
>I simply want everything to go to them.  The problem seems to be in getting the
>system to recognize domain addresses without trying to route them locally
>via SMTP.  When using bang style addressing, everything works OK.

a while a ago i tried the same, and i think after editing the sendmail.cf
file the mailers worked (so far), but the header looked horrible. 
i started spending hours of testings with sendmailconfigurationscripts,
but in the end i found problems with domain-based addresses, (and queing
of local mails via uux, if the given domain, even if it's a fake doesn't 
fit the real-one), i decided sendmail to be to cryptic (or non functional) 
and simply installed smail31, a pd-program. 
it simply works. (+tcp/ip)
	robert.


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