From: Ed Carp (erc@unislc.uucp)
Date: 10/02/92


From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: problem with mail (from mailpak 1.3)
Date: 2 Oct 1992 19:58:52 GMT

Kristo Kaarlo Matias (kkk@field.ichaos.nullnet.fi) wrote:

: Local mail seems to work ok, but delivering mail outside doesn't work.
: If I type "mail kikka@hut.fi", the mail text is dumped to /tmp/dead.letter.
: It also creates /usr/spool/uucp/phobos/C.phobosN001e and nothing else. (phobos
: is my smart-host).
:
: Contents of C.phobosN001e:
: S D.magmaN001d D.magmaN001d root -C D.magmaN001d 0666
: S D.magmaX001c D.magmaX001c root -C D.magmaX001c 0666
:
: What's going on...?
:
: I'm using Linux 0.97pl5 and GCC 2.2.2d.

Hmmm...do you have a /usr/lib/uucp/paths file that's readable by the mail
group and does it contain a "smart-host" line?

-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG     erc@apple.com                801/538-0177
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