I'm running Debian Linux 1.2 with smail 3.2-3, and recently installed the current Mutt mailer package (0.52) to test it out. (Mutt is a mail program similar to Elm but with many new features.)
Problem is, out of the box they don't deliver mail properly to local users. With Mutt, if I send email to "dsew", it is translated to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" before being sent. That throws smail into a loop error (maximum hop count exceeded) and the mail bounces. The smail loop error can be prevented by adding the line more_hostnames=localhost to /etc/smail/config. What I don't know because I'm not a mail guru is which program is not behaving properly. Should smail be configured by default to resolve "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" correctly, or should Mutt not translate "user" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? I'll send a bug report to the package maintainer once I know which counts as the "bug". -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "If all things should become Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | become smoke, then perception WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | would be by the nostrils." | --Heraclitus -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
