Subject: Re: Help me! Obscure error messages...

From: [email-masked] (Markus Rosenkranz)
Date: 11 May 1996 02:04:00 GMT

Markus Rosenkranz ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Something strange's going on here.  When I use PINE to write to some email
: address which does not correspond to a login account (or which is just a link
: to such an account), I get some nasty error message like:
: -------
: /bin/sh: /usr/bin/uuname: No such file or directory Folder: INBOX  0 Messages
:                                                    sendmail:
: [email-masked] ... deferred: (ERR_127) router
: uucp_neighbors: command `/usr/bin/uuname' returned exit status EX_32256help
: using Pine
:                                        sendmail: mail moved to
: /usr/spool/smail/error/0uHzWL-0001MGC MESSAGE
: -------
: Now the curious thing is that using the ancient unix mailer /bin/mail, it
: just works out fine.  Can anyone figure out what the reason might be?

I have found how to solve the problem by myself.  I have to set the option
"SMPT-server" to "localhost" although the help tells me *not* to set this
variable (since I have got a unix system, i.e. Linux).  Now it work fine, but
I honestly do not understand why!

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From: [email-masked] (Markus Rosenkranz)
Date: 10 May 1996 21:28:13 GMT

HI FOLKS!

Something strange's going on here.  When I use PINE to write to some email
address which does not correspond to a login account (or which is just a link
to such an account), I get some nasty error message like:

-------
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/uuname: No such file or directory Folder: INBOX  0 Messages
                                                   sendmail:
[email-masked] ... deferred: (ERR_127) router
uucp_neighbors: command `/usr/bin/uuname' returned exit status EX_32256help
using Pine
                                       sendmail: mail moved to
/usr/spool/smail/error/0uHzWL-0001MGC MESSAGE
-------

Now the curious thing is that using the ancient unix mailer /bin/mail, it just
works out fine.  Can anyone figure out what the reason might be?

.......
Let me add some details.  Since I did not manage to configure the mysterious
IMAPD (where can I get some _brief_ instructions?) which always reports
"Connection refused", I installed a symbolic link via nfs to the machine I am
using as a mail server.  Thus /usr/spool/mail/marcus points to the
corresponding file at the remote host; "marcus" is my username on both.
(Actually the file on the remote host is by itself a link to the mailfile in
another directory; but this is only for security reasons.)  By this mechanism,
my machine thinks all mails coming to the remove server are actually local.  I
would prefer some less "tricky" way like IMAP, though, as I have already
pointed out.  In order to get replies on the right machine, I also set the
variable "user-domain" to that of my remote mail server.
I do not think these details will help you much, but one never knows.
.......

Thank you so much for any help.
Marcus.