> I haven't found much other than a thread dating back to 2013 from fgb, > which appears related but doesn't seem to have a solution that works > for me.
Apologies, this was a thread from 2007 though fgb was not the original poster. After digging a little more based on one of steve's suggestions in the thread to run upas/smtp with -d, I think this makes much more sense now: % upas/smtp -d 'net!$smtp' stallion f...@bar.com expanding /net!$smtp sending /net/dns 'x.x.x.x mx' dns: dns: name does not exist mxlookup returns nothing smtp: cs: can't translate address: dns: name does not exist (net!$smtp) So it looks like upas will attempt to do an mx lookup for smtp; which means it's expecting a domain rather than the dial string of an SMTP server. After digging into the source a bit, it looks like mkdial in /sys/src/cmd/upas/smtp/mkdial.c is to blame; it also looks like it's not possible to specify a port number, which makes sense given that its relying on an mx lookup. I suppose in the end the kludge I added was the right solution after all. Go figure. Steve ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T95e65bcdc61bf064-M0415822ccd72fb76bb57b4a1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
