dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (02/23/88)
I'm just starting to learn my way around sendmail (does every 4bsd site have to go through this ?) and stumbled across a problem that I can't figure out, short of plunging into full-time debugging. We have a local ethernet, and our main machine, RNA, has UUCP connections and ARPAnet access via the Rockefeller campus machine. I got just about everything to work (including using smail/pathalias for UUCP routing) except multihop forwarded local mail. If I make my personal mail machine RNA, and my accounts on say, RNB and RNC have .forward files that redirect mail to dan@rna, if I mail to myself from RNB to RNC, RNA's sendmail says: rna: I refuse to talk to myself (unavailable service). Apparently in the process, the destination address is rewritten to dan@rna.rockefeller.edu (which seems fine). "Single" hop local forward works fine (e.g. from RNB to RNA). Just mailing from any machine to dan@rna.rockefeller.edu works fine. Everything works fine except this multihop forwarding. I know the message is in the sendmail code that tries to open a TCP connection, but I can't understand how RNA's sendmail ever gets there. In the sendmail.cf, there are rules to catch local mail and use the local mailer. In desperation, I commented out in sendmail.cf every instance of $#ether and $#tcp, as well as those mailers, the only mailers that use the IPC channel, and still the problem occurs exactly as before. I therefore concluded that there was some other way that sendmail was deciding to use IPC/TCP instead of local mail, bypassing the sendmail.cf completely. Am I all wet ? What am I missing ? Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o Dept. Neurobiology 212-570-7671 Rockefeller Univ. ...cmcl2!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. rna!dan@nyu.edu NY, NY 10021 tso@rockefeller.edu
wendt@segovia.CS.ColoState.Edu (alan l wendt) (03/08/89)
I'm trying to set up my .forward file so that it does a few things for me. It would route some mailing list messages to files instead of putting them in the /usr/spool/mail/wendt. It would check the subject lines so that students can check in their assignments by mailing them to me, have the assignment compiled and verified, and mail back a reply to the student. And the rest of the stuff wants to get put in /usr/spool/mail/wendt. The sensible thing to do with the rest of the stuff is to pipe it back into sendmail, with a flag saying not to do forwarding, but I can't find such a flag on sendmail. Suggestions anyone? Thanks Alan Wendt
mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) (03/08/89)
In comp.mail.misc, alan l wendt writes: >And the rest of the stuff wants to get put in /usr/spool/mail/wendt. >The sensible thing to do with the rest of the stuff is to pipe >it back into sendmail, with a flag saying not to do forwarding, >but I can't find such a flag on sendmail. Suggestions anyone? [ Why was this in comp.emacs? ] [ I've directed followups to comp.mail.sendmail. ] My sendmail man page (SunOS 4.0) describes a -n flag that means "don't do aliasing" -- I'm not sure whether aliasing is construed to include per-user forwarding, but I think I recall from the sendmail source that they're handled in the same place, so maybe. You might also be able to quote the recipient name by preceding it with a backslash. At least, if sendmail finds a name of the form '\name' in a .forward file, it doesn't try to reforward the message. Alternatively, instead of handing the stuff back to sendmail, you could just feed it to /bin/mail, which will deliver it to your mailbox. I wrote a rule-based pattern matcher for dispatching mail based on ed-style regular expressions in its headers, and it uses this technique to effect final delivery for sites that use the sendmail / /bin/mail combination. In fact it derives the sender's name from the message and then uses "/bin/mail -r <sender> -d <recipient>" to force the "From " lines to contain the right name. -- Matt Landau Waiting for a flash of enlightenment mlandau@bbn.com in all this blood and thunder
James.Reilly@tel.vtt.fi (Jim Reilly) (11/13/90)
Hi,
I have a friend who is struggling to install mailx on his
Sys V Unix system. He thinks he is having a problem with
his sendmail.cf file but isn't sure. I told him I would
try to ask the net.mail.guru's for some help for him.
His basic problem is he is able to send mail to addresses such
as:
user@ccc
but not:
user@ccc.xxx.yyy
Also he is not able to recieve any incoming mail from the outer
world with a full domain address. He thinks he can recieve incoming
mail from the outer world if it is of the form
user@bbb
but not if it is a full domain address: user@aaa.bbb.ccc
We are guessing that it is a problem with his sendmail.cf
not being able to parse a full address like user@aaa.bbb.ccc.
Does this sound familiar to anyone, or does anyone have
any other suggestions for him to look at ???
I will forward any e-mail replies to him, or you can
reply directly to him (different machine) at
kallis@ccc.nersc.gov
thanks !
jim reilly
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Internet Mailbox: James.Reilly@tel.vtt.fi
UUCP Mailbox: ...!{mcsun, uunet}!tel.vtt.fi!reillyelsn4000@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de (Frank Elsner) (11/15/90)
Questions about "sendmail.cf" are better directed to
comp.mail.sendmail
there are the gurus :)
Frank