Brian Skreeg typed: > I'm trying to setup smail the operate over my dial-up slip account. > I installed smail (and it's dependants) using dselect and ran smailconfig. > I chose option 1: Internet site sending and receiving mail using smtp : > This seemed to me to almost setup smail correctly. It put the write line in > inetd.conf and when I write a mail offline it gets dumped in spool as it > should. I'ce configured my isp's mailserver as my smarthost. I'm not sure if this is the best way to do the job. I think smail would get upset that it cannot, most of the time, deliver any messages. A better way, perhaps, would be UUCP over IP.
> Unfortunately when my link comes up (dial-in) the mail refuses to budge > from spool . Typing "runq" in an xterm produces no errors or information, > it merely runs then exits. What does mailq say? And *nothing* at all in the logs? Hmm, try runq -x255 - Craig -- // /\ | | | Craig Small VK2XLZ @home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||==||===|==|=| [44.136.13.17] @play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ \/ | | | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
