towfiq@FTP.COM (Mark Towfiq) (03/05/91)
In article <1991Mar1.213453.25922@litwin.com> vlr@litwin.com (Vic Rice) writes:
My company has just setup a new DECStation 5000. We need this machine to
forward all mail to uunet for processing. This forwarding is going thru
an intermediate machine, dynsim1. My feable attempt at configuring
sendmail results in "Unknown HOST" for any mail sent to the outside world.
The returned mail complains about "dynsim1.tcplocal" being the unknown
host. Where is the "tcplocal" coming from. I have an entry "dynsim1" in
my L.sys file. I am expecting the mailer to call dynsim1 for all mail
delivery to addresses it doesn't know about. (dynsim1 is a uucp link by
the way)
Basically, what needs to be done to the stock sendmail.cf to get the mailer
to forward unknown addressed mail to another host via a uucp link ??
I don't know which "stock" sendmail.cf you are using, but it seems as
though your sendmail.cf is trying to do TCP sending, and you want it
to do UUCP sending. You either nee to get a UUCP-only sendmail.cf, or
if you want to do both TCP/IP and UUCP transmission, you need to get a
sendmail.cf that handles both. In either case, you will then need to
edit the part in sendmail.cf which lists your known UUCP connections.
In fact, it may very well be that this last step is all you need to do
for your current configuration to work.
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