cantrell@eemips.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell) (08/30/90)
The boilerplate version of sendmail.cf being distributed with RISC/os 4.5 will not work with addresses of the form user@host.bitnet or user@host.csnet. The problem is that the sendmail.cf file does not define the internet gateway, which sendmail.cf attempts to append to the From: address. It looks to me like someone at mips built a version of sendmail.cf using the m4 sendmail compiler and then edited the results to get the various boilerplate .cf files. This is a good example of why the m4 sendmail compiler system should be documented and utilized by mips. I notice from the sendmail README files in /usr/lib/cf that the need for hiding behind and internet gateway when sending to domain .arpa was supposed to go away. Since this code is dated in early 1989, I wonder if this has come to pass? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierce Cantrell Internet: cantrell@tcsl.tamu.edu Department of Electrical Engineering Bitnet: cantrell@tamtcsl Texas A&M University tel: (409) 845-7441
lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe) (08/31/90)
cantrell@eemips.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell) writes: >The boilerplate version of sendmail.cf being distributed >with RISC/os 4.5 will not work with addresses of the >form user@host.bitnet or user@host.csnet. The problem >is that the sendmail.cf file does not define the >internet gateway, which sendmail.cf attempts to >append to the From: address. I use a sendmail.cf developed by the networking support people at the Univ. of Washington and recommend it very highly - it handles gateways to bitnet/UUCP/CSnet, multilevel domain abbreviation, and best of all I didn't have to mess with it to get it to work. It is available via anon. ftp from ftphost.cac.washington.edu (in pub/sendmail). -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnet
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (08/31/90)
From article <lgy.652050830@newton>, by lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe): > I use a sendmail.cf developed by the networking support people > at the Univ. of Washington and recommend it very highly - it handles > gateways to bitnet/UUCP/CSnet, multilevel domain abbreviation, and > best of all I didn't have to mess with it to get it to work. Didn't have to mess with it? That takes all the fun out of it! Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu
reggers@uwovax.uwo.ca (Reg Quinton) (09/08/90)
In article <lgy.652050830@newton>, lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe) writes: > I use a sendmail.cf developed by the networking support people > at the Univ. of Washington and recommend it very highly - it handles > gateways to bitnet/UUCP/CSnet, multilevel domain abbreviation, and > best of all I didn't have to mess with it to get it to work. It is > available via anon. ftp from ftphost.cac.washington.edu (in pub/sendmail). Another, developed by the networking people here, is available by anonymous ftp in ria.ccs.uwo.ca:~ftp/nic/sendmail -- Telephone: (519) 661 2151 x6026 (a real person and not a machine) Canada: reggers@uwo.ca (used to be UWO.CDN) BITNET: reggers@uwovax.BITNET (for the ethnocentric) UUCP: reggers@ria.UUCP (...uunet!utai!ria!reggers)