Re: Smail
John T. Larkin writes ("Smail"):
> I'm having a problem with smail. It was recently working just fine. But
> for some reason unknown to me, it has stopped working.
> Sending mail to user@foo results in a returned message, host unknown.
> Mail to user@foo.st gives the same error.
> Sending mail to user@foo.st.hmc.edu is ok.
> Here's 2 lines in /etc/resolv.conf:
> domain st.hmc.edu
> search st.hmc.edu hmc.edu
> 'telnet foo' works fine, so does something like 'finger @foo'.
> FYI, I have smail 3.1.29.1 rev 13.
You probably need a `nameserver' line in resolv.conf. What does your
/etc/host.conf say ? Try seeing if nslookup works.
Ian.
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