[comp.sys.next] Replacing sendmail with IDA+

paul@cgh.uucp (Paul Homchick) (03/06/91)

Has anyone replaced the NeXT-supplied sendmail with somethin newer?
I've been working with IDA+/5.65 because I want to implement some of
the advanced database features such as the DOMAINTABLE and PATHTABLE.
I've been able to compile and install the package but have a few
remaining sticking points.

First, what have NeXT done to their sendmail to get it to retreive
aliases from netinfo?  What can I do to make IDA do the same thing?

Why doesn't the supplied sendmail support the frozen sendmail.cf file?

Also, I am having failures where mail will be bounced back to off-site
users as undelivered because rmail returns with an exit status of 0,
error code 70.  However, the mail really has been delivered locally,
so it ends up being delivered AND bounced.

Thanks...
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paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick) (03/10/91)

In article <1516@cgh.UUCP> paul@cgh.uucp (Paul Homchick) writes:
>Why doesn't the supplied sendmail support the frozen sendmail.cf file?

Because the sendmail sources use brk() to allocate memory for loading
the frozen .cf file copy.  The NeXT does not support brk() and sbrk().
Presumably, no one had enough energy (or courage) to recode this
portion of sendmail.

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