igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) (04/11/89)
[Good informative Subject:, yes?] I'm currently involved in putting UK-2.1 onto a network of eight IBM 6150 (aka PC/RT) "workstations" running AIX 2.2 (their System V.2 plus extensions). They are not running AOS, the 4.3bsd port. I have a configuration whereby one of the machine acts as a uucp gateway to the rest of the network which will use smtp. The problem is in an inability to parse addresses as follows: The domain is called "cobuild.collins.co.uk". I am using multihost. Machine "hamlet" cannot expand "igb@lear" to "igb@lear.cobuild.collins.co.uk" and cannot recognise "igb@hamlet.cobuild.collins.co.uk" as local mail (even with a dedicated local channel with the name hardwired in). It can, however, queue mail initially addressed to "igb@lear.cobuild.collins.co.uk" correctly. The same problem applies to other machines on the network without the uucp channel. This essentially kills smtp mail as the name is expanded up on the local side of the transfer and then rejected on the far side. The problem as I see it is that in the first line of Ruleset Zero, ruleset three is not called. If I use sendmail on my System V machines here, machine "pea" parsing "igb@pea" calls ruleset three. On the RTs machine "hamlet" when parsing "igb@hamlet" immediately proceeds to ruleset sixteen. Does anyone have any helpful hints, places I could ask, whatever? ian
igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) (04/11/89)
As a follow up to the above, I have transferred the offending sendmail.cf to my V.3 and V.2 machines here in sunny Bordesley Green and they behave correctly, going through ruleset three. I blame IBM... ian