Smail: How to send mail to domain without specifying hostname?

[Sidney F. Thomas]

I recently set up SLS 1.02 and got smail working ... up to a point.
I can exchange messages with correspondents
up and down the internet. What I find I cannot do is send messages to
people on my own domain (worldbank.org) where we have a DEC/VAX based
All-in-1 mailing system. They have set things up so that mail messages
within the domain carry addresses of the form AN...@worldbank.org, that is,
no hostname is specified. Instead, there is some "intelligent" host
(aka Domain Name Server, I believe)
in the domain that intercepts mail messages, looks up a table
of names, and routes messages to the appropriate host within the domain.
Great! Except that this little linux box with smail complains at
addresses of the form AN...@worldbank.org, and messages so addressed don't
even leave the machine, let alone find the aforementioned intelligent host.
I have fiddled with the config and paths files, but without success.

Here is my smail config file:
------
#
# visible_domain list the domains (primary first) we say we're in
#
visible_domain=worldbank.org
#
# next is the name in our headers
#
visible_name=sthomas.worldbank.org
#
# this is the path to our smarthost (this could be sysa!sysb!sysc etc.)
#
smart_path=nimbus!
------

and my paths file:
------
#
# who we talk to
nimbus nimbus!%s
worldbank.org nimbus!%s
worldbank.org !%s
#
# who we are
sthomas %s
sthomas.worldbank.org %s
-------

The smail man page refers to various configuration files, which may
be used to over-ride various configuration options. I guess that my
problem could be solved if I but knew how to set up such files, but
I couldn't find any documentation on the formats for these files, only
the sample "config" and "paths" files which I adapted (above) to my situation.

I do not have uucp configured. Mail is delivered through the internet.
The IP address of sthomas.worldbank.org is 138.220.64.1. The router on
my subdomain is 138.220.64.240. The domain worldbank.org is 138.220.0.0.

Any suggestions?

--Sidney Thomas,
sth...@sthomas.worldbank.org, OR
STHO...@worldbank.org

[Joseph Toman]

Hi guys!
The subject line says it all! I have been and still am :( an MS Windows
application developer. I'd be interested in helping with an MS Windows
translation lib for Linux/X11. Please let me know how to join. I could
probably put in 6-8 hours a week.

Johannes