From: mbravo@tctube.spb.su (Michael E. Bravo) Subject: Summary: /bin/mail or elm? Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1993 04:49:35 GMT
I would like to thank everyone who have sent or posted answers to my request
about elm problem, and to post a summary.
Many people suggested that I have a smail configuration problem, however,
that was not the fact, because the original trouble was noted when a caller
wrote a message to root using /bin/mail, that is, interacting with recipient
mailbox without smail.
The problem was in two things:
1) original /bin/mail doesn't form domainized From: line in message if it is
from foo@tctube.spb.su to bar@tctube.spb.su -- replacement with wonderful
mailx5.3b fixes that.
2) elm configuration problem: it should be noted that:
a) there are in fact two *rc files in /usr/local/lib/elm - elmrc AND
elm.rc, or so I found at least.
b) hostname-related statements should be put into
/usr/local/lib/elm/elm.rc and domain names must _NOT_ start with a dot
c) there is an alternative way: create file /usr/local/lib/elm/domain,
containing your domain name starting with dot
-- Michael E. Bravo AKA /\/\ike 7 812 231 3951 (home) The Communication Tube mbravo@tctube.spb.su