prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain) (05/30/91)
I have been trying to set up a NeXT cube and one NeXTStation in a subdomain, and have been experiencing many problems with mail. Until we (the two NeXTs) got moved into this subdomain, everything worked fine, I would guess due to our nameserver and mail-relay being in the same domain. Now I can't get cub (the cube) to put a fully qualified domain name on the From: line. For example, if I send mail from my account prophet@cub.math.oxy.edu, the From: line reads only prophet@cub. I had to edit the sendmail.cf file to recognize itself (add the full domains to ruleset 6), but I haven't seen how to make cub export it's full domain name. It was suggested to me that I merely change the hostname from cub to cub.math.oxy.edu, but I have a feeling that is not a solution. It sounds more like a workaround that ignores the problem. I am also having problems sending mail to the new domain name (cub.math.oxy.edu), although it accepts cub.oxy.edu without any complaints. If it matters at all, the NeXTStation is set up as a mail client, and I have added its domain name(s) to the self-identifying part of ruleset 6. Is this a generic problem with the packaged sendmail.cf files? If so, could someone _please_ send me a corrected version or pointers on how to remedy these problems? My other question has to do with talk. I can't get it to work across the network to non-NeXT machines (a Sun3/60 to be specific). I get the message 'Host is too refused (sic) to talk to us.' I can talk between two NeXTs fine, but moving out of NeXTdom doesn't wash. Is there a way to 'register my invitation' with the NeXT so I can 'talk' to it from our Sun? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dale LaFountain System Administrator, Math Dept. Occidental College prophet@oxy.edu