I355@VMT.SCP.AC.UK ("Roderick Douglas") (08/31/90)
Dear all, Sheffield Poly has been trying to use uk-sendmail to get a sun to relay SMTP mail from an apollo to JANET. We're using uk-sendmail to generate the config files for sendmail on both the apollo and the sun. We've got the sun working on the Janet channel, but cannot get any traffic between the apollos and the sun on the TCP channel. Both sides seem to perform the 'make test' ok, but running sendmail generates an error: 554 buildaddr: no host Both sides have each others names in the /etc/hosts file, and telnet and ftp work happily both ways. Routing is done through an Apollo fitted with both Ethernet and Apollo token ring cards. Where are we going wrong? Also, I cannot work out what the difference is between the ether channel and the TCP channel. I've got nothing on the ether channel file, because it seemed more sensible to use the TCP channel as we are routing between ethernet and token ring. Was this a sensible choice? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Roderick Douglas Telephone: (0742) 533829 Janet Site Representative Fax : (0742) 721502 Computer Services Department JANET E-Mail : I355 @ UK.AC.SCP.VMT Sheffield City Polytechnic Pond Street Sheffield S1 1WB
jimc@quintus.com (Jim Crammond) (09/01/90)
check the line in ruleset 0 in base.m4 to ensure that the TCP line says `R<$+>$+.tcp $#tcp$@$2$:<$1> internet mail ^ early copies of the UK-2.1 release went out with a missing '$' in the critical place. -Jim.
keith@spider.co.uk (Keith Mitchell) (09/03/90)
My thanks to Jim for mentioning this patch - I too have never been able to get the `tcp' channel to work, and this explains it. However, this rule appears to come from the "rules.m4" file rather than "base.m4". One other thing I have in common with Roderick Douglas <I355@vmt.scp.ac,uk> is that the difference between the tcp and ether mailers has never been clear to me - is it the difference between using SMTP to deliver mail to within, and outside of, your local domain ? Maybe someone could clarify for us ? Keith Mitchell (postmaster) Spider Systems Ltd. keith@spider.co.uk Spider Park keith@uk.co.spider Stanwell Street keith%spider.co.uk@uk.ac.ed.castle Edinburgh EH6 5NG ...!ukc!edcastle!spider!keith Phone: 031-554 9424 zspz01@uk.ac.ed.castle Fax: 031-554 0649