smail under Xenix: help?

[Tom Yager]

Hello again,

I'm having trouble with 'smail' under SCO Xenix '386. I compiled, installed
and have been using it for a few days. The problem is that it will not do
what I installed it to do, that is, resolve domain-style addresses and
route them to the proper uucp-accessible host.

Here's the question: could some kind soul now running a configuration similar
answer to the following scenario:

Any uucp-style address is to be left alone, assuming that a direct connection
exists from the local host. Any domain ('@') style addresses should be routed
to a single "smart" host, let's call it "fred." I already have "smart-host"
entries in both /usr/lib/uucp/paths and /usr/lib/mail/saliases. When I invoke
smail in debug mode and pass a domain address to it ("tyager at foobar.foo.org")
which is represented in the paths file as ".foo.org    fred!%s     0", it
moans and says 'No local user named ""' and returns the message to sender.

As I understood the documentation, it appeared that any domain represented in
the paths file would be translated as indicated. I also thought that any
address which could not be resolved would be shipped off to the host in
the "smart-host" entry.

If it winds up behaving as advertised (and is failing to do so now due to my
own ignorance), it seems a useful and wonderous thing. I lack the time to
dive into this code myself and find out where the address resolution is 
getting messed up.

Replies (if any) via email please. As always, thanks to all in advance.
(ty)

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