aggarwal@NISC.JVNC.NET (Vikas Aggarwal) (11/06/90)
I have spent enough time trying to figure it out for myself, and now I want to know if there is an easier way... I am trying to set up sendmail on our Sun 4, and I have the latest version of bind and sendmail (with MX kludge, etc, etc) running. I have a host, call it "A.FOO.NET", and I wanted that mail addresses of the form "user@foo.net" be accepted by the mailer on A.FOO.NET. I set up an MX record for FOO.NET which points to A.FOO.NET so that mail destined for "user@foo.net" gets to this host atleast. My problem lies in the A.FOO.NET mailer accepting the fact that mail addressed to "user@foo.net" actually implies itself. I am using the standard Berkeley config files, and finally got the whole thing to work by adding ruleset 8 where I replaced an occurrence of "@DOMAIN" with "@host.domain". I have bounced mail of berkley.edu (a.k.a ucbvax.berkeley.edu) and noticed that that mailer does not do any replacement stuff. I would prefer to do something like that. Can I create a name server entry where "A.FOO.NET" is a CNAME for "FOO.NET" - then the resolver routines will automagically replace the FOO.NET with A.FOO.NET - but maybe my nameserver will choke... Any ideas / suggestions (postmaster@berkeley.edu ....?!!) ?? -vikas vikas@nisc.jvnc.net (609) 258-2403 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) (11/08/90)
In article <9011051727.AA16922@nisc.jvnc.net> aggarwal@NISC.JVNC.NET (Vikas Aggarwal) writes: > [ typical tale of sendmail woe deleted ] >Any ideas / suggestions (postmaster@berkeley.edu ....?!!) ?? Yes. I fought with sendmail configuration for a long time, and never succeeded in getting it running just the way I wanted to. Then, I pulled smail3.14 off uunet, and had it installed and running right in about three days. I'm happy, the users are happy, the mail is getting thru.... HIGHLY recommended. The only thing to watch are the log and error files in /usr/spool/smail, which can get large if you don't clean them out every week. -- Gary Heston System Mismanager and technoflunky uunet!sci34hub!gary or My opinions, not theirs. SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com The sysadmin sees all, knows all, and doesn't tell the boss who's updating their resumes.... This .sig Copyright G. L. Heston, 1990