herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) (02/07/91)
I have a standalone 030 cube running NS2.0 and am having trouble
setting up my external mail connection. I have managed to set
up a UUCP connection to a machine on the INTERNET and can receive
mail at the address:
<username>@alexander.mn.org ( where "alexander" is the name
of my machine, obviously )
However, after hours of pouring over the available documentation on
sendmail, rmail, and UUCP, I cannot figure what needs to be done to
cause the NeXT Mail Agent ( and sendmail ) to recognize that all
domain style addresses are to be sent out over my UUCP connection.
I have tried things like:
tcnet!<user>@<host>.<domain> ( where "tcnet" is the name of the
machine to which I am connected via
UUCP )
But the mail bounces back.
What I would like ideally is to have names of the form:
<user>@<host>.<domain>
be sent out over the UUCP connection with their address intact so that
tcnet could forward them appropriately, but I don't know how to
accomplish this. My guess is that I'll have to modify some configuration
file. Perhaps "/etc/sendmail.cf"?
What I've read seems to indicate that a rule will have to be placed in
/etc/sendmail.cf that rewrites addresses, in which a domain is unrecog-
nized, to a UUCP style address. For example:
<user>@<host>.<domain>
would be rewritten as:
tcnet!<user>@<host>.<domain>
but I am just guessing.
Anybody want to help me out? Thanks in advance.
- Max
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
William R. Herndon
Secure Computing Technology Corp.
Once you've had black,
you'll never go back...NeXT
bill@alexander.mn.org
herndon@sctc.com
(612) 482-7431 glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) (02/09/91)
In article <1991Feb7.145251.2329@sctc.com> herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) writes: > What I would like ideally is to have names of the form: > > <user>@<host>.<domain> > > be sent out over the UUCP connection with their address intact so that > tcnet could forward them appropriately, but I don't know how to > accomplish this. My guess is that I'll have to modify some configuration > file. Perhaps "/etc/sendmail.cf"? Yes, you need to edit /etc/sendmail.cf, but it's a relatively easy edit. Change these lines: # major relay mailer DMetherl # major relay host DRmailhost CRmailhost To this: # major relay mailer DM uucp # major relay host DR your_uucp_neighbor CR your_uucp_neighbor There's one other useful hack. Find the line that looks like this: Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u) and get rid of the "-r " in the second line. That will cause outgoing UUCP mail to get tried right away, instead of just being put in the outgoing queue. I hope that helps. Glenn -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785 (fax 851-1470)
Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com (02/11/91)
I believe the sendmail.cf files shipped with 2.0 are seriously broken for anyone using uucp rather than (or in addition to) tcp/ip network type connections. I have fixed a couple of bugs that make it somewhat usable, but I still get badly munged headers (though the mail now goes in both directions reliably). I would be happy to continue to learn about sendmail and produce and post a good sendmail.cf file, with without ftp on the Internet I have no idea how to get the necessary information. If someone better connected would be willing to get me the sendmail sources package and Eric's documentation on the .cf files, I'll get to work on it because I really need a fixed version. The material in Evi Nemeth's book was helpful but not quite adequate for me to complete the fixes. The following diff shows what I changed in sendmail.mailhost.cf. It should at least get the mail through (with munged headers). "bippo" is the name of the machine (connected by uucp) that does the address translation for outside transmission. < is mine, > is the old way; I did this backwards 19c19 < Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$. --- > Dj$?m $w.$m $| $w $. 37,38c37,38 < DRbippo < CRbippo --- > DR mail-relay > CR mail-relay 65d62 < Dmbippo.wa.com 80c77 < Dq$g ($?x$x$|$g$.$?w on $w$.) --- > Dq$g$?x ($x)$. 264c259 < A=uux - $h!rmail ($u), E=\n --- > A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u) 270a266 > 338,339c334,335 < # R<@$-.uucp>:$+ $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $1 < # R$+<@$-.uucp> $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $2 --- > R<@$-.uucp>:$+ $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $1 > R$+<@$-.uucp> $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $2 343c339 < R$*<@$*.$+>$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain --- > #R$*<@$*.$+>$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain 345c341 < #R$*<@$+.$->$* $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain --- > R$*<@$+.$->$* $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain
cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose) (02/12/91)
In article <1991Feb7.145251.2329@sctc.com> herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon) writes: > > However, after hours of pouring over the available documentation on > sendmail, rmail, and UUCP, I cannot figure what needs to be done to > cause the NeXT Mail Agent ( and sendmail ) to recognize that all > domain style addresses are to be sent out over my UUCP connection. > > I have tried things like: > > tcnet!<user>@<host>.<domain> ( where "tcnet" is the name of the I have a uucp connection too. Try this: tcnet!hoax.ucsd.edu!deacon where the internet address is: deacon@hoax.ucsd.edu This works for me. Christopher Penrose jesus!penrose@esosun.css.gov cpenrose@ucsd.edu
bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) (02/13/91)
In article <2381@happym.wa.com> Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com writes: >I believe the sendmail.cf files shipped with 2.0 are seriously broken for >anyone using uucp rather than (or in addition to) tcp/ip network type >connections. > >I have fixed a couple of bugs that make it somewhat usable, but I still get >badly munged headers (though the mail now goes in both directions reliably). > >I would be happy to continue to learn about sendmail and produce and post a >good sendmail.cf file, with without ftp on the Internet I have no idea how to >get the necessary information. If someone better connected would be willing >to get me the sendmail sources package and Eric's documentation on the .cf >files, I'll get to work on it because I really need a fixed version. The >material in Evi Nemeth's book was helpful but not quite adequate for me to >complete the fixes. > If you have only a uucp link, then the following information may not help you a lot because you'll need to use ftp(1). Use anonymous ftp to uxc.cso.uiuc.edu and look in the cso/sendmail directory. There is a cf subdirectory that should have all the materials for a good example. Keep in mind, though, that you may wish to ftp *all* of the sendmail directory and rebuild sendmail for your machine because the cf stuff may not work with a version of sendmail that is backdated too far. I don't have Rel. 2.0 of the NeXT software yet, so I don't know what version of sendmail comes with it. > [text deleted --SJB] Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "WAR is the HEALTH of the STATE" --Albert Jay Nock (I think:-) * **********************************************************************
dpaulso@k30b.nswc.navy.mil (ef80) (02/19/91)
In article <1991Feb15.174115.57@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> das15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Douglas A Scott) writes: > > Also, addresses like tcnet!<user>%<host>.<domain> will work. > ^ > Note the use of '%' rather than '@'. While this may work, I have always understood that the mixing of '%' and '@' is A Bad Idea. Since it's possible to arrange your sendmail.cf file so that addresses that are not "local" automatically get routed to your uucp feed, why not just do that? /dave -- Dave Paulson dpaulso@relay.nswc.navy.mil (work) Synetics/NAVSWC talos!SandBox!dave@uunet.uu.net (home,NeXTmail)