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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!bcstec!dmp3592 From: dmp3592@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Dean M. Phillips) Subject: sendmail.cf is write only language! Message-ID: <C6GF7C.D01@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> Reply-To: dean@deanstoy.wa.com Organization: Boeing 777 Division References: <1rp74uINNq1h@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <GENE.93Apr30084746@stark.uucp> Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 14:06:48 GMT Lines: 46 In article <1rp74uINNq1h@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> dejan@marie.mit.edu (Dejan Vucinic) writes: > I have a standalone machine running 386bsd, and I want > to uucp to a host. > > 1. I tried almost everything with my sendmail.cf, all I get > when I send mail to system!user is host name lookup failure, > and my mail bounces after couple of days or immediately, > depending on what I say in sendmail.cf. How do I configure > sendmail for a standalone machine? (I'm using bin01 Taylor uucp.) > (Yes, I do sendmail -bz every time...) This is because the sendmail.cf on the distribution system is set up to use tcp/ip over ethernet. Rule zero needs to be changed to direct things to your uucp connection(s). In article <GENE.93Apr30084746@stark.uucp> gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) replies: >Go to /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf and look at what is there. >There are m4 files and prototypes to create a variety of sendmail.cf files. >I did this with varying degrees of success. My main problem is that >when UUCP mail originating from "user@domain" arrives via host "uulink", >the reply fields end up containing "uulink!user@domain". When you >reply to this, the domain addressing seems to take precedence, resulting >in an attempt to find user "uulink!user" at "domain". Anyone who has ever looked at /etc/sendmail.cf knows that it is write-only as far as any human is concerned. I am not surprised to see many people having dificulty with it. I found the "ease" program (ask archie) helpfull as well as "SENDMAIL - An Internetwork Mail Router" by Eric Allman. You can get this document by anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net file systems/unix/bsd-sources/share/doc/smm/07.sendmailop/op.me.Z With the combined help of these items I was able to get my home system communicating by uucp. I can turn my sendmail.cf into a prototype and put it up for anonymous ftp somewhere if someone can provide a home for it (I can't afford to have my system on the Internet full time). Good luck! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <std_disclaimer.h> Dean M. Phillips 206-294-1024 Boeing Commercial Airplane Group: dmp3592@icdfs.ca.boeing.com Home: dean@deanstoy.wa.com