rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (05/16/91)
OK, I admit it. I'm another sendmail victim, a person who just can't seem to figure out sendmail.cf files. And "ease2" isn't necessarily a panacea for me; I downloaded it but am daunted by the task of figuring out yet another seemingly complex subsystem. I have bidirectional communications capability that works at least somewhat between an RS/6000 and two other offsite systems running UUCP. One of them is on the Internet, and the other one goes through a couple of UUCP hops to get there. Complicating things are: (a) I've got some local systems that insist on using MMDF in conjunction with sendmail (thanks, SCO!), (b) one of the two UUCP links seems to munge the "from" address on e-mail, due apparently to a coincidence in the name of my company and the name of another UUCP-connected system down the line, and (c) my company says I have zero dollars to spend on this. I've got it somewhat working through the Internet system (from which I'm doing this posting): - Outbound mail looks like From: kronos!richb@ursa-major.spdcc.com - Inbound mail looks like From: user@host.domain If I reply to inbound mail like that, it goes into a "deferred" status in my mail queue because sendmail can't figure out where host.domain is. I want it to parse the domain and send anything that isn't to "anyhost. kronos.com" via the UUCP link. On systems other than my UUCP-linked system, I want them to route the mail through that system for external domains. And I want my UUCP-linked system to tell remote mailers that its name is "kronos", the company name, and I want it to tell local SMTP mailers that its name is "somethingelse.kronos.com". Right now it lies and says its name is "kronos.kronos.com". Any helpful hints on how to combat sendmail misery? I took a quick look at smail and concluded that it's probably not necessary for my situation. The domain name server might also need to be configured locally. Once I figure this thing out, I'd like to register our site on the Internet; I believe MX records are intended only for systems on the Internet which want to know the relay for an off-the-net system like mine. (If you have a Boston-local system on the Internet which could serve as a UUCP relay for my site, I'd like to talk more about it. Uunet is clearly overkill.) Finally, is MMDF capable of talking directly to sendmail via SMTP? The SCO documentation skirts this issue, though it is quite clear that MMDF's host tables require explicit names for every conceivable system to which I'd want to talk. (It doesn't use the domain name service.) -rich