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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sendmail, sendmail.cf, etc. Date: 4 Sep 1996 21:32:45 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 44 Message-ID: <50ksht$oin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <50k72c$2ih@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <8791aqy0yc.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Yes, I have that line (I have the standart sendmail.cf coming with the distribution - 2.1.5) It does not work though. steve farrell (spfarrel@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) wrote: : igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) writes: : you want to add the following m4 file: : ##### @(#)use_cw_file.m4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/7/93 ##### : and rebuild configuration. you can then add hostnames to a file : called /etc/sendmail.cw (e.g.) and sendmail will receive mail for : those hosts and deliver locally (this is what you want, right?) : --steve farrell : > : > : > Hello! : > : > I have the following problem: : > I need to set the sendmail (host ALFA) so that it can receive e-mails : > for another machine (host BETA) if that one is down, : > and not just receive, but DELIVER : > them locally (i.e. to the mailboxes at ALFA), as if they were send to this host. : > : > Ok, I set MX records to have ALFA as a forwarder for BETA with the low : > precedence. : > on ALFA: : > I tried to include BETA in Cw (which is enough for IRIX for example). : > I tried to include BETA in sendmail.cw : > this doesn't help. : > What am I missing ? : > What is so specific about sendmail for FreeBSD that it doesn't want : > to handle this ? : > : > thanks. : > : > -- : > IgoR@uiuc.edu : > aka StR : >