DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA (Jim Diamond) (08/05/88)
We have a 3130 which is connected to a local area network (speaking TCP/IP). One of the systems on the LAN is an arpanet gateway. I wanted to get sendmail set up to communicate with the rest of the world. I tried reading the S.G. documentation. It talked about a couple of files in a directory which didn't even come with our system. Thus that was little use. I tried modifying the copy of the sendmail.cf file which came with the system, according to the instructions contained therein. That didn't help either. Depending on how I set it up, I either get "user unknown" or "host unknown" type messages. Since we have ftp and telnet working fine, I assume that the problem is most likely with my sendmail.cf file and not elsewhere. Before I spend possibly outrageous amounts of time becoming a sendmail expert, is there anyone out there who can either 1) enlighten me with a few sentences, or 2) send me a working sendmail.cf for a similar system. Thanks. Jim Diamond diamond@drea-xx.arpa -------
DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA (Jim Diamond) (08/24/88)
1) 29-Jul To: INFO-IRIS@DREA-X sendmail 2) 17-Aug Andrew Myers 3000 sendmail setup Message 1 -- ************************ Return-Path: <Gavin@DREA-BALROG.ARPA> Received: from DREA-BALROG.ARPA by DREA-XX.ARPA with TCP; Fri, 29 Jul 88 09:36:54 ADT Return-path: <DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA> Received: from DREA-XX.ARPA by DREA-BALROG.ARPA via INTERNET with SMTP id 25501; 29 Jul 88 09:25:20 ADT Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 08:59:10 ADT From: Jim Diamond <DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA> Subject: sendmail To: INFO-IRIS@DREA-XX.ARPA Message-ID: <12418154345.29.DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA> Resent-To: diamond@DREA-XX.ARPA Resent-From: Gavin L. Hemphill <Gavin@DREA-BALROG.ARPA> Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 09:36 ADT Resent-Message-ID: <19880729123636.1.GAVIN@DREA-BALROG.ARPA> We have a 3130 which is connected to a local area network (speaking TCP/IP). One of the systems on the LAN is an arpanet gateway. I wanted to get sendmail set up to communicate with the rest of the world. I tried reading the S.G. documentation. It talked about a couple of files in a directory which didn't even come with our system. Thus that was little use. I tried modifying the copy of the sendmail.cf file which came with the system, according to the instructions contained therein. That didn't help either. Depending on how I set it up, I either get "user unknown" or "host unknown" type messages. Since we have ftp and telnet working fine, I assume that the problem is most likely with my sendmail.cf file and not elsewhere. Before I spend possibly outrageous amounts of time becoming a sendmail expert, is there anyone out there who can either 1) enlighten me with a few sentences, or 2) send me a working sendmail.cf for a similar system. Thanks. Jim Diamond diamond@drea-xx.arpa ------- Message 2 -- ************************ Return-Path: <@cypress.sgi.CS.NET:andru@sgi.com> Received: from SH.CS.NET by DREA-XX.ARPA with TCP; Wed, 17 Aug 88 17:29:20 ADT Received: from cypress.sgi.cs.net by SH.CS.NET id aa19376; 16 Aug 88 21:08 EDT Received: from rhialto.sgi.com by sgi.sgi.com (5.52/880418.SGI) (for DIAMOND@DREA-XX.arpa) id AA04808; Thu, 11 Aug 88 16:26:53 PDT Received: by rhialto.sgi.com (5.52/880418.vjs) (for DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA) id AA00803; Thu, 11 Aug 88 16:26:44 PDT Date: Thu, 11 Aug 88 16:26:44 PDT From: Andrew Myers <andru@sgi.com> Message-Id: <8808112326.AA00803@rhialto.sgi.com> To: DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA Subject: 3000 sendmail setup Cc: andru@rhialto.sgi.com Re: sendmail.cf problems on IRIS 3130 I had the same problem on a 3030 machine, and ended up copying a sendmail.cf file from Stanford (polya.stanford.edu, I believe) and modifying it slightly. The modifications involved changing the lines in the file which define the domain and hostname, and also changing the flags which were passed to the mailer programs to match those in the SGI sendmail.cf file. Unfortunately, I don't have access to that machine or file anymore, but this is one way to do it. About 4-5 lines in a "real" sendmail.cf need modification. -------
DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA (Jim Diamond) (08/24/88)
I sent out the following message a few weeks ago. Then our system decided to take a week or ten days off, so I'm not certain whether or not some helpful messages which came my way got returned. I did get one reply (from Andrew Myers (thanks)) but I couldn't get the file he recommended. If anyone else out there can be of assistance, I would be most grateful. ----------------------------------------- We have a 3130 which is connected to a local area network (speaking TCP/IP). One of the systems on the LAN is an arpanet gateway. I wanted to get sendmail set up to communicate with the rest of the world. I tried reading the S.G. documentation. It talked about a couple of files in a directory which didn't even come with our system. Thus that was little use. I tried modifying the copy of the sendmail.cf file which came with the system, according to the instructions contained therein. That didn't help either. Depending on how I set it up, I either get "user unknown" or "host unknown" type messages. Since we have ftp and telnet working well, I assume that the problem is most likely with my sendmail.cf file and not elsewhere. Before I spend possibly outrageous amounts of time becoming a sendmail expert, is there anyone out there who can either 1) enlighten me with a few sentences, or 2) send me a working sendmail.cf for a similar system. Thanks. Jim Diamond diamond@drea-xx.arpa -------