kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (08/23/90)
This is on a Sun SS1 under 4.1.. I have my sendmail.cf set up so that ether's the DM (default mailer); subsequently, whenever people tried to send mail to blah@uuhost, it'd fail with "unknown host in domain widener . edu"..it had me baffled. I figured that sun would've already taken care of iodiocyncracies (sp) like this. At any rate, I came up with a fix...now it'll see if the uucp host name is an ethernet host...if that fails, it'll feed it to the uucp mailer. I'm digging from memory, but I think it was (in ruleset 0): # blah ABOVE this line are absolute addresses. blah $#ether $:$1 $@$2 # user@etherhost R$*<@$2> $#uucp $:$1 $@$2 <the $#error entries start here> The first part of that was copied from the u@h -> u!h entry in ruleset 5, and the second was just a copy of the $#ether's second half. It's parsed down pretty much everything okay so far; can anybody either come up with any reasons why I *shouldn't* do this, or come up with a better way of fixing it? Thanks! Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu For now: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu | Or: bkehoe@widener.bitnet