From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: Problems with mail Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 13:45:02 GMT
In article <1993Apr19.040507.9527@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> eea78555@athletes (Hwan-Rei Lee) writes:
>root@tradent.wimsey.com writes:
>: fauerbac@clyde.cs.unca.edu (John Fauerbach) writes:
>: : I can send mail to local users and receive mail from remote users, but I
>: : can't send mail to remote users. I get a mail message back like the
>: : following:
>: :
>: : From root Fri Apr 9 07:53:58 1993
>: : To: root
>: : Subject: Returned mail: jfauerba@aurora unknown address
>: :
>: : The following letter is being returned because the address
>: : 'jfauerba@aurora' is unknown to this machine (the address wasn't in the
>: : pathalias database and smart-host wasn't defined). Sorry for
>: : the inconvenience.
>: :
>: : -- Returned mail follows --
>: : [...]
>: I have the same problem, however I can mail via elm but if I reply via tin I
>: the above problem. I'm using SLS .99p2 .
>
> You should run a program named '/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h'.
>
Better yet, there's a port of mailx floating around. Get and install
that. The problem is that edmail (which on SLS is /bin/mail) bypasses
smail (a.k.a. sendmail). The mail program provided with mailx doesn't
suffer from this drawback. I think I got mine from sunsite, but it
should be available from most sites.
-Joel