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From: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown)
Subject: Re: Smail 3.1.28 on 386bsd
In-Reply-To: crawford@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za's message of 30 Apr 93 05:10:36 GMT
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 17:18:41 GMT
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In article <1993Apr30.051036.14358@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> crawford@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za (Brian Crawford) writes:
I'm running 386bsd release 0.1 w/ patchkit 0.2.3, and Smail 3.1.28.
Recently, we changed our machine name from com9 to comgate. The
386bsd /etc files were changed and there is no problem with the os
it seems. However, after changing the Smail config file, the email
software still thinks it's com9.
What must be done to get email to recognize the change?
This is one of the irritating features I alluded to in my other
article on e-mail, posted yesterday! The annoying thing is that there
is a configuration file, which sets compiled-in defaults, and there
are also several configuration files which are loaded at run time. If
you are not careful, the compiled-in defaults show through - I
personally override all the compiled-in defaults simply because if you
try to compile in your configuration it takes so long changing
anything.
Most likely, then, is that your smail binary has a compiled in default
machine name of com9. You either need to override the appropriate
setting in your config file, or else change it in the EDITME file and
recompile.
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