rwl@umree.ee.umr.edu (Wayne Little) (03/29/90)
After many hours of hacking on sendmail.cf, I'm ready to ask for help. WE HAVE: o the DNS (Domain Name Service) libraries from uunet.uu.net/sun-fixes installed & working fine for telnet, ftp & etc. (with YP disabled). o defined a CNAME alias in the name server data base for each dept.'s main mail machine. (e.g. mailhost@ee.umr.edu has a CNAME of ee.umr.edu). Aliasing/forwarding to other dept. machines is done from the main dept.machine). This works fine w/our kludge... o the below described scheme working with a terrible kludge requiring external files & our own ugly rewriting rules, running on various machines. (* we want to get out from under this & use - the following *) WE WANT: o domain based mail + all users @ all machines mail addrs like user@dept.umr.edu + i.e. machine independent (no machine name in address. + without YP o to use a version of sendmail supporting MX records + either the 1 available from uunet or the latest BSD 1 would be ok o to do it on a sun 3 or sparcstation-1 with 4.0.3(c) o an elegant haque of sendmail.cf rather than our kludge (* IF you have a similar setup: i.e. NO YP, DNS libs from uunet & a machine independent domain based mailing setup,... *) CAN YOU SEND ME o example sendmail.cf files, one for the main dept. mailer & subsidiary ones for other dept. machines. (or as appropriate) o documentation of mods (what you did & why) to the sendmail.cf file o any pointers to doc. on sendmail.cf (other than sun ref manuals) o your favorate dengigration/quote/description RE: the ugliness of sendmail.cf :-) <* you dont' have to qualify above to send this :-) *> I WILL PROVIDE A SUMMARY, & make a package with example files available via anonymous ftp. Thanks in advance, Wayne Little Internet: rwl@ee.umr.edu Phone: (314) 341-4546