lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney) (03/28/85)
Greetings, I need to port sendmail from 4.2 onto an 11/44 running 2.9bsd. I am in the process of doing it now; I would like to know if anyone else has done it. At first glance, it doesn't seem to be trivial; running the make, the first lib module, syslog, asked for 3 includes involved in the 4.2 networking stuff. How hard is it to beat into submission? Any experience, useful hacks, and notes on how to manipulate the config files would be appreciated. One of the reasons for sendmail is that I send considerable batched mail out from here, and need the batched addressing feature. A question: How does the sending sendmail know when it is ok to batch? I assume it can only be done when the receiver is also sendmail; how can the sender know? Right now I mail from a sendmail machine through a single alias to over 200 people in a single message; senmail breaks it up and sends each message separately to our mail interface machine, which does not have sendmail. If I do get sendmail installed there, will it magically start batching (half of the mail is routed directly to ihnp4, for instance)? Thanks for any help. -- Lyle McElhaney {hao, stcvax, brl-bmd, nbires, csu-cs} !denelcor!lmc