[comp.mail.sendmail] Problem with IDA

peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) (01/30/89)

A while ago, I wrote:

>I'm having problems with the sendmail.cf that comes with Ultrix 3.0.
>I would post this to comp.unix.ultrix but that group seems to be dead
>lately; maybe the moderator is on vacation.  First, a little about our
>situation.

Many people were kind enough to suggest that I get the IDA sendmail kit
and build  it.  I proceeded to do so, along with getting and installing version
4.8 of BIND.

However, IDA doesn't do what the ULTRIX sendmail did.  I'm using the same
.cf file that I used before.  I define somethings in my .cf file as such:

DNVAX1
FN/etc/passwd %[0-9a-zA-Z_-]
CN MAILER-DAEMON postmaster admin

What they are SUPPOSED to do is forward any mail that cannot be resolved
locally to VAX1, which is connect via DECnet.  When I go into test mode,
I try an unknown username and it resolves to the correct mailer,host,user
triple, specifically

   rewrite: ruleset  0 returns $# Dmail $@ VAX1 $: username

It tries to deliver the mail, however, and I get unknown user.  

The sendmail that comes with ULTRIX will resolve to the same triple and
send the mail correctly.  Have any other ULTRIX sites out there been able
to make IDA do this correctly?  I'd really like to use IDA because the
sendmail that comes with ULTRIX is broken about 5 different ways.
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