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From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush)
Subject: Re: Bug? (uucp settings)
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:43:17 GMT
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Mikhail Teterin (mi@cs.bu.edu) wrote:
: Yes! Discovery... Plain 
: 	mail aldan!root
: Is put to be delivered over mailhost.berkley.edu, while 
: 	mail root@aldan is
: delivered localy. Since rmail gives addresses in !-form (should it?),
: all the uucp-mail gets lost -- berkley.edu is anaware of any aldan :-)

Sendmail can be set up for domain-style addressing over uucp, but since
the remote machine is sending it with a bang path, you need to change
yours to handle it.

Normally I wouldn't recommend hacking on the sendmail.cf file.  But if
you add the following line:

Cwaldan.UUCP

near the top of the file, it should do the trick.  (Notice there's 
already a `Cwlocalhost' line in there; leave it there.)  Don't change
anything else.

For future reference, get the sendmail config sources in
/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail??/cf and go over the README carefully.  This
will allow you to customize sendmail for your system.

Good luck!

-- 
Tom Rush
tom@tarush.chattanooga.net