Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!virgin!jbd From: jbd@virgin.UUCP (J. Bruce Dawson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: smail under Xenix: help? Message-ID: <1698@virgin.UUCP> Date: 6 May 88 03:40:15 GMT References: <172@mkunix.DEC.COM> <10656@steinmetz.ge.com> Reply-To: jbd@virgin.UUCP (Bruce Dawson) Organization: Virgin Software, Ltd. Lines: 28 Keywords: Xenix,SCO,blah,blah,blah Summary: SCO mail doesn't appear to support set sendmail=... In article <10656@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >In article <172@mkunix.DEC.COM> tyager@mkunix.DEC.COM (Tom Yager) writes: > >| I'm having trouble with 'smail' under SCO Xenix '386. I compiled, installed >| and have been using it for a few days. The problem is that it will not do >| what I installed it to do, that is, resolve domain-style addresses and >| route them to the proper uucp-accessible host. > > smart-host doesn't work on my system, either, although I have the full I have SCO 2.2.something running on a 286, and, although it looks a LOT like UCB's mailx, it doesn't support the set {sendmail delivermail} options of mailx. It would appear that SCO saw fit to removed this (rather necessary) feature. Why? I don't know - unless there was a conflict with the micnet software. At any rate, it would "shor be nice" if SCO would put it in, or at least some functional equivalent. BTW: If you have a mailx running on SCO, then you would put: set sendmail=/usr/bin/smail in your .mailrc file to get domain name translations. At least, I think this would work - I don't have the real mailx on my SCO system! -- J. Bruce Dawson (603)880-1517 office (603)880-6629 home 33 Cortez Drive, Nashua, NH. 03062