Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!apple!tahoe!malc
From: malc@tahoe.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: 5.61 wierdness on our machines
Message-ID: <2336@tahoe.unr.edu>
Date: 7 Jul 89 10:52:29 GMT
Reply-To: malc@tahoe.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock)
Organization: Univ. of Nev., Reno-Mathematics
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We are currently running an older version of sendmail here, which does
everything we need except for MX-handling.  Thus, I have been trying to
bring up sendmail 5.61 on two machines here, a Vax and a Tahoe, both
running BSD 4.3.  However, whenever I fire up 5.61, on either machine, I
see some seriously odd sendmail behavior.  To wit:

The two major problems:

- mail to user@host, where host is either a local ether host or a remote
  tcp host, fails with an "unknown host user@host" message.  This happens
  whether a name server is running or not.

- mail to local users (on the same machine), arrives with the headers
  looking like this:
  (I have indented the following text by a single tabstop)

	From malc Fri Jul  7 02:47:23 1989
	Ceived: by unrvax.unr.edu (5.61/smail2.5/10-13-87)
		id AA17962; Fri, 7 Jul 89 02:47:20 -0700
	Te: Fri, 7 Jul 89 02:47:20 -0700
	Om: 
	Ssage-`: <8907070947.AA17962@unrvax.unr.edu>
	`: 
	Bject: test
	Status: RO

I have tried running our current "old" sendmail in daemon mode, calling
the new sendmail as required.  Remote hosts are contacted correctly in
this case, and MX records are utilized (the big reason we are trying to
change over).  However, the headers arrive at the remote host munged as
shown above.  I've been wondering if the problem is in sendmail.cf, but
if it is, I'm stumped as to what it could be.  The current "old" sendmail
works fine with the .cf file we have now.

The libc.a on both machines has been updated based on the patches in
the bind 4.8 package.  However, the same 5.61 problems appeared using
the old version of libc.a as well.

The 4.3 machines I'm trying to bring 5.61 up on are a Vax 11/750 and
a Sperry 7000 (tahoe architecture).  5.61 produces the abovedescribed
oddities on both of these machines in precisely the same manner.  I did a
vanilla make depend/sendmail/install on both machines.

Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.


Malcolm Carlock

malc@unrvax.unr.edu
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