[comp.sys.sgi] Sendmail problem

millercb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clifford B Miller) (07/30/90)

I am maintaining about 20 diskless PI clients off a single SGI server.
I have a problem with sendmail.cf on the clients most recently added:
the mailer expands what should be
"@research.nec.com:millercb@theory.princeton.edu" into
"@research.nec.com:@research.nec.com:@research.nec.com:......", ad nauseum,
and of course mail -v reports "rewrite: expansion too long... cannot
resolve name..." in such cases.  I have been using the same sendmail.cf
on all these clients, re-freezing the configuration on each client.
The only difference between the older clients
that work and the newer ones that don't is that the newer ones have
their client-tree space on a new disk that I recently installed on the
server.  Everything else about this disk and its file systems appears normal
and functional.   Where is the problem?  (1) sendmail.cf?  (2) the new
disk?  (3) the share/client tree?  (4) the nameserver?  (5) ????
Any help would be appreciated: e-mail to cliff@research.nec.com.
 Clifford B. Miller, Research Associate / Systems Administrator
 NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey  (609) 520-1551
 Internet: cliff@research.nec.com		USMAIL: NEC Research Institute
 BITNET: MILLERCB@PUCC				4 Independence Way
 UUCP: ...princeton!necserve!cliff		Princeton, NJ 08540

root@ITNSG1.CINECA.IT (Valter Cavecchia) (01/31/91)

I have a little problem using sendmail (the MX version from SGI).
Our iris runs a nameserver, and everything works well if I send mail
to the Internet.
Hovewer I would like to send mail to other networks (say Bitnet), 
and I look for a sendmail macro (or something like that) that translate
an addres from this form:
	user@host.bitnet
to his one
	user%host.bitnet@my_mail_gateway
and send the message to my_mail_gateway.

Do anyone on the net found this kind of problem?
Thanks for any hints,
	valter
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