From: grosen@argv.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen) Subject: Re: Smail help!!! Date: 26 Jun 1993 14:11:16 GMT
Marc G Fournier (marcf@nexus.yorku.ca) wrote:
: bolsen@cs.umr.edu (Brian Olsen) writes:
: >hello!
: >I've been beating my head on the wall trying to figure out where to
: >start with the mail thing. I've got the smail package from the SLS 1.01
: >.99pl9 release but now I'm running .99pl10 with net-2 with a few annoying
: >problems. I can receieve mail with no problem, but anything I try to send
: >out gets immediately dumped to a dead.letter. It says something about
: >smart-host not defined, although I have a smart_path defined. I read the
: >FAQ on smail/news and smail.1 smail.5, but I'm still entirely cluless.
: >Do I need a different version of smail or is there some documentation
: >for stupid people out there, or would someone mind sending me acopy
: >of their config files?
: >Thanks
: >Brian
: >bolsen@ee.umr.edu
: >bolsen@cs.umr.edu
: >bolsen@dowland.ee.umr.edu <-linux box that does a good job storing mail
: I've been fighting with this also for the past week and a half,
: and tonight I finally got some success. I decided that I would recompile
: it from scratch, and went searching tsx-11 and sunsite for the linux
: patches or distribution of smail 3.1.28. Well, in sunsite (I think)
: I found the file smail3.1.28.TZ with a file smailTCP.README (or some
: such file) there as well. The TCP readme file mentions this great
: (in my opinion) script that is in the smail*.TZ file that 'auto'
: configures your config file. For some reason, this script is lacking
: from the SLS distribution :(
: I'm still having a couple of problems, but I got my first mail
: out across my Internet link around 2am today :)
: To whomever wrote that script...thanks :)
: marc
I am not an smail expert. However, if you are on a network and have a
registered domain then configuring smail is as simple as putting one
line in /usr/local/lib/smail/config:
domains="your.domain.name"
and firing up smail as a daemon in your rc.local or whatever. I have
been sending internet mail and receiving it with no problems with
the above config.