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Re: Domain Problems with Smail 2.5

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From: Alan P. Barrett
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 14:58
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In article <1991Apr3.231452.2394@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>,
curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) writes:
> I have a small local map with van-bc as my smarthost.  My site is
> cynic.wimsey.bc.ca and van-bc is also known as wimsey.bc.ca.  However,
> when I send mail to user@wimsey.bc.ca it tries to deliver it locally
> instead.
>
>     smail -d user@wimsey.bc.ca
> produces
>     res_fname: looking for 'user'

It looks as though you have HIDDENHOSTS set in your defs.h.  Try
turning it off.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za           UUCP: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett
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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Domain Problems with Smail 2.5
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.145811.23033@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 9 Apr 91 14:58:11 GMT
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