[comp.mail.sendmail] How to begin to configure a sendmail

lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (05/18/89)

Does anyone have a cookbook approach for how to get a sendmail config file
to work for a particular situation?  I mean, there are certain questions
that have to be asked, and based on those questions, certain fields
have to be modified, right?  Where does  one start?  

For my own circumstances, I have the following restraints:

1.	The system in question is using Ultrix 2.3 .
2.	It is a commercial site which does not want to add things like
	pathalias, smail, etc.  It just wants to get its current sendmail
	situation in hand.
3.	I could describe the networking set up, but would prefer not to
	do so in this forum - if there is a cookbook approach that would
	work out great - if not,  perhaps in private email.
4.	The goal is to get mail coming in and out into a RFC compliant
	format as much as can be done.


	Is this so unusual?  Is there a book, etc. that I am missing to
	get this done?  I have read a lot of man pages, etc. but
	have no clear idea exactly how to go about making changes
	that work - since this is an existing system attempting 
	to continue business, mistakes could be costly.

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barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) (05/20/89)

In article <1101@n8emr.UUCP>, lwv@n8emr (Larry W. Virden) writes:

>2.	It is a commercial site which does not want to add things like
>	pathalias, smail, etc.
>4.	The goal is to get mail coming in and out into a RFC compliant
>	format as much as can be done.


I would say they have to get a connection to a smart host.

I would recomend UUNET. They would even get a domain address.

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