matt@eecs.nwu.edu (Matt Larson) (11/01/90)
We are trying to install Berkeley Sendmail 5.65 on a MicroVax II running Mt. Xinu 4.3 BSD. There seems to be a problem with the class w, the alternate host names class. The machine is 'accuvax.nwu.edu', but is also known as 'acns.nwu.edu' and 'nwu.edu'. We have tried using both an Fw line and putting the two alias names in a file, and putting them directly in the .cf file on a Cw line. Both ways result in the same problem: sendmail appears to be ignoring these aliases. I tracked the alias substitution down the ruleset 6 and it looks great. (We are using the prototype 'tcpproto.mc' to generate this .cf file.) When sendmail is run in test mode, neither of these aliases resolve to the local mailer. When sendmail is actually running, mail to an aliase results in bounced messages with this error: 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local presumably because it is trying to talk to itself, which is a bad thing. If this same configuration file is moved to either a Sun or a NeXT (Sendmail version numbers unknown), the aliases properly resolve to the local mailer. This leads me to believe the it is a problem with the Berkeley sendmail, or it least our copy of it. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Would someone be willing to mail me a uuencoded version of the sendmail binary for a MicroVax to try out? We had to really play with things to get sendmail to compile and I wonder if that is part of the problem. Thank you for any help. -- Matt Larson, Distributed Systems Analyst Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University matt@acns.nwu.edu (708) 491-5366