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Re: smail - Is smarthost behavior correct?



Bob Hilliard <hilliard@metrolink.net> writes:

>      I have always understood that when I deliver mail to a smarthost,
> the smarthost is supposed to handle everything transparently to my
> machine.  I have smail configured with my ISP, metrolink.net, as a
> smarthost for all mail.  However, smail seems to wait for the
> smarthost to resolve the address before handing over the mail.  Is

Where do you see it resolving adresses? In the next two lines?

>    rhilliar@mc.seflin.org: mc.seflin.org matched by smart_host router:
>    hilliard@metrolink.net: metrolink.net matched by smart_host router:

This is OK. Smail checks which router (in /etc/smail/routers) it should
use for delivering this mail and says that the smart_host router matches.

Ciao,
	Martin


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