Very Computer

I've been trying to get mail of ANY kind working on my system.  I am
using the most recent version of Slackware which comes with smail (but
not sendmail).

In any case, I've had problems with mail eith not showing up at the
target site or is * with the following error (or one similiar):

        deferred: (ERR_170) router uucp_neighbors: read error in output
        from `/usr/bin/uuname'

I tried installing sendmail, but that prooved to be an exercise in
futility and I gave up after I ran out of hair to pull out of my head.

Can anyone identify the above error and tell me if there is an easy fix
for it (yes, I installed the uucp package)?  Note, this installation was
tested on two different machines with identical problems.

In addition, as I mentioned, I've had some problems apparently with mail
being sned out, it not creating the above error, but it apparently never
getting responded to.  This was accomplished by sending to various
listservers and the like asking for help files or to sign up on mailing
lists.  Nothing ever comes back.  No error is produced, but it just plain
dissappears.

Any help would be appreciated.

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This is a known problem with smail.  The problem is in the
file routers/uuname.c.  It runs a command (uuname) via popen()
and then checks for any errors (with ferror()).  Unfortunately,
it first closes the stream with fclose().  Any subsequent
operations on the stream are undefined, and fail on Linux (it
presumably worked on the developer's machine :]).  Just save
the error state before doing the fclose(), then check it.

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Dan S.

Other chance is to remove the 'uuname' router definition from
/usr/lib/smail/routers and write some kind of paths file if needed.
As the original poster just had the binary, this could be a viable
alternative.
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Quote:>Other chance is to remove the 'uuname' router definition from
>/usr/lib/smail/routers and write some kind of paths file if needed.
>As the original poster just had the binary, this could be a viable
>alternative.

This is in fact what I did later, because I wanted to do
some non-standard routing.  Suggesting this as the initial
fix, however, is a little too much like the old "Doctor, it
hurts when I do ..." joke.

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Dan S.