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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:22:15 -0500
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] $smtp dns failure
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> I have "smtp=smpt.gmail.com" on my profile.

Unfortunately, in the context of dial strings,
there is a difference between the environment
variable smtp and the network variable smtp.

Setting the environment variable in your profile
should not affect /mail/lib/rewrite at all.  It is the
network variable smtp that is named by
the rewrite rule.  For that to work you need to
have set smtp= in the /lib/ndb entry for your
host or in the entry for a network containing it.

> What does
>
>       ndb/csquery net!$smtp!smtp
>
> print?

For the same reason, you actually want to run
    ndb/csquery 'net!$smtp!smtp'
(with quotes), so that the shell does not substitute
the environment variable.

Russ