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From: eliot@milton.u.washington.edu (Eliot Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX sendmail (was: System/6000 questions.)
Message-ID: <5058@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 22:37:14 GMT
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Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <2671@awdprime.UUCP> jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091) writes:

+>I ported sendmail 5.61 with relative ease, and I'm definitely not a unix 
+>pro.  (It comes with sendmail 5.2)
+
+I'm afraid you may have wasted your time, since I can assure you that the
+sendmail shipped with AIX3 is indeed 5.61 (from BSD tahoe); having done the
+port myself last summer, I agree that it was uneventful.
+
+Of course, IBM has added functionality to its sendmail, included National
+Language Support, etc.  More interesting, we added support for MB, MG, and
+MR nameserver records, which may be fairly pathbreaking.
+
+But I'm curious: what led you to believe that it was 5.2?

When I type mail to look at messages, it says "5.2 BSD".  I suppose I'm
mistaken.  More worrying, however, is that a standard campus wide
sendmail.cf file will not work with the shipped version of sendmail.
Using my vanilla ported sendmail works and that will be the one I'll be
using since I don't have the time to go and find out what's wrong.


Eliot