ross@fdurt1.FDU.EDU (Jeff Ross) (04/17/91)
I am currently running Ultrix 4.1 along with the sendmail that was shipped with this version of ultrix. I am having a few minor (major??) problems with the .cf file. The system that has the problem is fdurt1.fdu.edu (also known as fdurt1.UUCP) the machine has uucp, tcp/ip and decnet connections. the problem seems only to be with uucp mail or any mail that uses the "!" syntax, but this doesn't effect all mail in this format, fdurt1.fdu.edu will properly handle mail that arrives to it in to syntax of "qualified_hostname!username" but not "qualified_hostname!uucp_host!username" sendmail for some reason on the second example will ignore the first hostname in the line and attempt to send mail to the second machine on the list. since I probably don't have a direct connection to that uucp host, the mail will bounce. however, (i'm going to use uunet.uu.net as an example host) if I where to address the mail as such: uunet.uu.net!uunet.uu.net!uucp_host!user sendmail will first rewrite the address as: uunet.uu.net!uucp_host!user@uunet.uu.net and send the message to uunet.uu.net via tcp/ip. if I understand the addressing corectly, the address uunet.uu.net!uucp_host!user should be rewritten as uucp_host!user@uunet.uu.net even though that does seem to be slightly ambigous. the senario is true for mail send directly from fdurt1.fdu.edu or passed to it via uucp. the next item that I'd like to get working is to forward all unknown uucp traffic to another site (preferably via tcp/ip) for processing. Digital does comment a macro for this use, but I have only been able to get it to work for any uucp address with a .UUCP on the end. did I miss something?? lastly we have a few machines connected to fdurt1.fdu.edu via uucp only and would like to provide them with a qualified domain name. If I understand correctly, I would have to set up an MX record on my nameserver saying that fdurt1.fdu.edu will handle the mail for these machines, however, how do I tell sendmail to convert this mail from tcp/ip to uucp?? if you want to see my sendmail.cf file, just holler and I'll send it your way.. thanks in advance.... Jeff -- .Sig??? you want a stinkin' Sig too???? sheesh Jeff Ross --- Fairleigh Dickinson U. Teaneck, NJ ross@rodney.fdu.edu (work) 201-692-2357