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From: steve@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Steve Platt)
Newsgroups: mail.uk-sendmail-workers,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: help with "mailbox server" needed
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Date: 6 Jun 90 16:53:54 GMT
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Hello, I'm having trouble setting up mail clients using
SUN's "sendmail.subsidiary.cf" file rather than use UK-sendmail
to generate a "generic" configuration for each client to use.

The idea is to avoid having to feed a new NRS-derived sendmail.cf
into each client each day.

Having added a "Dm" line which says "Dmmrc-apu.cam.ac.uk" to the
SUN supplied file, I think it works for the client machines OK.

However when I try to use the same slave config file for a "mailbox server"
I find that it wont recognise local mail: that is if the server is called
"mailbox" and a user has a YP alias like "user@mailbox" mail sent from
the mailhost (gateway?) machine seems to be sent to the mailbox machine
OK but the machine doesnt recognise the user as local and sends it back
to the mailhost - reulting in a loop of course.

I have tried adding lines like "Cmmailbox.mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk" and this causes
sendmail to reduce "user@mailbox.mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk" to "user@LOCAL" but
sendmail then turns this into "user@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk" and sends this
over the "ether" channel, causing the loop.

Has anyone got a sendmail.subsidiary.cf file to work as a mailbox server?
Any hints?

Steve Platt
Computer Manager
MRC Applied Psychology Unit
15 Chaucer Road
Cambridge CB2 2EF