Re: Mail question using Interactive UNIX 3.0

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From: Robert B. Tate
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:30

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In article <01fmj9a.esprit@netcom.com> esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry) writes:
>
>I am running Interactive UNIX 3.0 on my machine.  It uses a modified
>version of smail 2.5 (based on strings in smail) and sendmail.  I am trying
>to use the smarthost feature of smail.
>
>When I send mail using internet style addressing, instead of not recogizing
>the hostname and sending it to the smarthost, I get a User unknown message
>from sendmail.  If I turn off sendmail, I get a similar message from
>rmail.
>
>Any clues where I should start looking?
>
>alan
>esprit@netcom.com
>

I also run ISC 3.0 and tried using the supplied mail stuff. I replaced it
ALL with smail 3.1 an have not looked back. I had all sorts for weard
problems with ISC's mail stuff untill I installed smail3.1 an then it all
started working ( and the config files are _much_ simpler than
sendmail!).


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 rbt@tous.OAU.ORG  (Robert B. Tate)       | A little knowledge is a dangerous
 {ucf-cs,peora,tarpit}!tous!rbt           | thing. Any less can kill you.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tarpit!tous!rbt
From: rbt@tous.oau.org (Robert B. Tate)
Subject: Re: Mail question using Interactive UNIX 3.0
Message-ID: <1992Jul23.043039.6452@tous.oau.org>
Summary: replace it!
Organization: Tate Enterprises
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:30:39 GMT
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