🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, I've succeeded finally in getting email out from my UnixWare box, and  
over to the sort-of-BSDish NeXT.  Turns out what was wrong was that  
/etc/netconfig had the NetWare networking listed before the TCP/IP stuff;  
that's a no-no.  /usr/lib/mail/surrcmd/smtp, which actually sends the mail  
over the wire to the remote host, was crapping out with an "error 69", which  
means "unable to make the connection".  Invoking smtp by hand would generate  
an immediate "connection timed out".

My guess is that smtp always uses TCP/IP.  Does it ever use SPX/IPX?  If not,  
why should it be befuddled by the order of entries in /etc/netconfig?

Printing is yet an elusive goal.  Prior to changing the order of entries in  
/etc/netconfig, /usr/lib/lpNet (I believe it was lpNet, at any rate) was  
dumping core every ten minutes into /var/spool/lp.  Now, it no longer dumps  
core, but it still doesn't successfully make the connection.  Here's a sample  
from /var/lp/logs/lpNet:

  11/15/93 01:53 p   345 <none> Starting.
  11/15/93 01:53 p   345 <none> Starting lpNetParent.
  11/15/93 01:53 p   345 <none> Initialized & Polling.
  11/15/93 02:02 p   345 <none> Started child for molly, pid = 458
  11/15/93 02:02 c   458 molly lpd starting (active)
  11/15/93 02:02 c   458 molly lpd connected to molly
  11/15/93 02:02 c   458 molly lpd disconnecting from molly
  11/15/93 02:03 c   458 molly lpd connected to molly
  11/15/93 02:03 c   458 molly lpd disconnecting from molly
  11/15/93 02:04 c   458 molly lpd connected to molly
  11/15/93 02:04 c   458 molly lpd disconnecting from molly
  11/15/93 02:14 c   458 molly lpd timing-out
  11/15/93 02:14 c   458 molly lpd exiting, status=0

I get a nice polite email from the system, telling me that it killed my print  
job for me - but no output.  Anyone have any suggestions here?
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