WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA.UUCP (03/14/87)
It seems the root of many of the improperly formed message headers, and the reason that many hosts have had difficulty in switching to the domain format host names is poorly constructed sendmail.cf files. This problem will shortly become acute when the NIC will no longer disribute its HOSTS.TXT file containing host alias entries. Therefore, I'd like to propose that a small handful of sendmail wizards get together and produce one proven sendmail.cf file for each of the major environments: Internet only, UUCP only, a combination of the two, and whatever else they deem necessary. Then make the resulting versions available either somewhere on NIC or ucbvax or both, and advertise where they are. Of course, if this has been done already, it would pay to make that information known much more widely, particularly at this time. --Frank -------
dms@HERMES.AI.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/15/87)
I have a sendmail.cf file that works fairly well. It has extra stuff in it for our local chaosnet hosts, and I think it does a few things incorrectly here and there, but it would be a good starting point for someone who might want to tune it up a bit. It uses the domain system and I've stripped out all the Berkeley specific cruft that most people have. It's much less confusing than the standard distribution file. It's in the public ftp area on hermes.ai.mit.edu.
john@xanth.cs.odu.EDU (John Owens) (03/19/87)
[This failed the first time at SRI-NIC: tcp-ip@SRI-NIC.ARPA: Forwarding error: Cannot find indirect file - No such device ?!] > one proven sendmail.cf file for each of the major environments: > Internet only, UUCP only, a combination of the two > --Frank <WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA> For the combination internet/uucp sendmail.cf file, it would be good if someone could come up with a general, automated, way of sending mail destined for domains primarily under UUCP via UUCP, and others via the Internet. For those that would prefer UUCP when a site is on both, some massaging of the first part of the pathalias output might be in order. I imagine, though, that most Internet sites would prefer Internet, but would rather send mail that will eventually end up on UUCP themselves, rather than forwarding it to seismo. Maybe if the UUCP Project would put out a simple list of the second level domains that are registered with them and not on the Internet or csnet, in the form: ADELIE.COM AMD.COM ATT.COM ... VORTEX.COM it would be usable as a sendmail class.... (This would be especially good for those UUCP Zone domains that don't have an Internet forwarder!) I'd love to help, but as I'm not physically on the Internet.... John Owens Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia, USA john@ODU.EDU old arpa: john%odu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET +1 804 440 3915 old uucp: {seismo,harvard,sun,hoptoad}!xanth!john