Re: Another MMDF issue - sending full recipient mail addresses

From: Simon Hobson (simonsnews_at_thehobsons.codotuk)
Date: 05/25/05 

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 19:19:15 +0100

On Tue, 24 May 2005 21:53:17 +0100, John DuBois wrote
(in message <119751tsdl3pbb2@corp.supernews.com>):

>> Can I simply disable inbound mail altogether ? This system will never need
>> to
>> process mail that it did not originate.
>
> Sure. Remove the smtp line from inetd.conf & send inetd a SIGHUP.

Well at least that's one bit sorted !

>>>>> ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/mmdf/submit
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded this, but when I replace the submit binary, nothing is
>>>> delivered
>>>> - no connection to the destination mailserver, nothing in messages or
>>>> syslog.
>>>> Looking at the binaries, there is a HUGE difference in size (submit.jdb
>>>> is
>>>> the one downloaded from ftp.armory.com) :
>>>>
>>>>> # ls -lL sub*
>>>>> -rws--x--x 1 mmdf mmdf 144056 Aug 8 2001 submit
>>>>> -rws--x--x 1 mmdf mmdf 266352 May 23 13:00 submit.jdb
>>>>> #
>>>
>>> What happens if you try running it directly?
>>> It should hang waiting for input until you hit ^D.
>>
>> It does.
>
> In that case you'll have to increase the debug level until you get something
> logged - in mmdftailor, set MMSGLOG to progressively higher levels (FAT, TMP,
> GEN, BST, FST, PTR, BTR, FTR).

I can get debug output (in chan.log) with the SCO submit binary, but nothing
(even at FTR) with the one I downloaded from ftp.armory.com.

  You can also use 'awkmail -b' to submit jobs
> via submit with debugging/etc. turned on.
>
> ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/awkmail

Unfortunately, this requires gawk - this system is vary basic with minimal
additions.

BTW - the web page www.armory.com/~ftp/#/pub/admin is out of sync with the
ftp site - it says that awkmail is in the mmdf directory.

Thanks for being so patient, but I've now persuaded the other system to
accept domain-less addresses from this host - which to all intents and
purposes fixes teh problem for me. Though it would be more satisfying to do
the job properly !

Simon