Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:1096 comp.mail.uucp:1451 comp.mail.sendmail:1 comp.sources.d:2470 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!evan From: evan@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Evan Bauman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sources.d Subject: routing problem with sendmail/smail Keywords: mail,smail,sendmail,route Message-ID: <589@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> Date: 12 Jul 88 02:31:38 GMT Organization: Dep't of Chemical Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame Lines: 45 I just noticed a small problem with our sendmail/smail/bind mail system and I was wondering if anyone had seen this same problem. We're running this all on a Sun 3/50 with SunOS 3.5. ndcheg is the main mail machine here in engineering. We have several machines connected on the ethernet with names that are NOT registered in the uucp maps. We'd like to keep it that way. Now here's the problem. Let's say one of our locally un-registered machines is called 'jupiter'. Here at ndcheg, we get uucp mail for ndcheg!jupiter!username Since this is coming in via uucp, and not sendmail, rmail (which is really smail in disguise!) assumes that this is mail bound for another uucp link and bypasses sendmail completely. I quote from the Read.Me file in the smail distribution: Features of smail include: . . (5) Mail being forwarded through your machine to another uux link is passed from rmail directly to uux, so there's less overhead on your machine (sendmail stays out of the loop.) which is NOT what I'd like to happen. What actually happens is that smail looks up a path to a machine called jupiter in /usr/lib/uucp/paths. This jupiter is NOT the jupiter that the mail is destined for. Therefore, I'd like to disable this 'feature' and put sendmail "back into the loop". Anyone with any ideas on how to do this?? Thanks in advance. Evan Bauman Univ. of Notre Dame evan@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu evan@ndcheg.uucp -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sponsored by Powdermilk Biscuits in the big blue box. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------