Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!rutgers!ucla-cs!ames!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: pathalias bug? Message-ID: <489@hao.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 20:23:55 EST Article-I.D.: hao.489 Posted: Mon Jan 12 20:23:55 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 05:00:36 EST References: <486@hao.UUCP> <1292@ncr-sd.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 51 Keywords: sendmail, smail Summary: Thanks. OK, next question... In article <1292@ncr-sd.UUCP>, greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel) writes: > In article <486@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes: > To reprise, the data: > > >first @second(LOCAL) > >second .third(LOCAL) > > produces: > > >0 first %s > >25 second %s@second > >4050 .third %s@second # Where the HELL does the extra 4000 come from??? > > The cure is simple -- declare the domain to be @-routed as well: > second @.third(LOCAL) > which will produce the expected > 0 first %s > 25 second %s@second > 50 .third %s@second # really %s@.third@second Thanks for that information, because it does solve the first problem I had, but unfortunately it brings up another one. This all started because I am trying to install "smail", a back end to sendmail(8) recently posted to mod.sources which supposedly handles domain-based addresses. My experience shows that it would probably drop right in *if* all our connections were via UUCP. Unfortunately they are not, and all the non-uucp links are giving me fits. I'd like to ask those out there who ARE running "smail" for help. The above situation still exists, and now that the pathalias problem is fixed (so that the route to the domain .third via our machine "second", which is connected to "first" via a local Ethernet, is the one that makes it into our database). The problem is that when I mail to "user@host.third", it bounces, and I don't know how to fix it. What happens is that the changes to the sendmail.cf file (which are documented in the information that comes with the smail sources) correctly recognize this as a domain-based address and pass it on to smail. Smail changes this address to host.third!user@second, as per the above pathalias output, but then it doesn't seem to know what to do with it after that. I get the mail bounced with the message that host.third is an unknown host. I would like it to do something sensible, like send it over the ethernet to "second" and let that host deliver it. How do I set it up to do this? Do I have to hack sendmail.cf (gag) to handle all domains that are not reached via UUCP links? If so, what ruleset should that kind of hack go into? Any hints or advice would be appreciated, I will post the final solution in this group if one is ever found (this does not seem like it should be all that uncommon a setup). --Greg {hplabs, seismo, nbires, noao}!hao!woods CSNET: woods@ncar.csnet ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Soon? woods@hao.ucar.edu