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From: jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
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Subject: Sendmail, again...
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Date: 19 Jul 90 16:47:26 GMT
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It appears that the rub in whether or not to compile sendmail with
NAMED_BIND defined or not depends on, believe it or not, what you want
and need.

With NAMED_BIND defined, sendmail will use a query-type of MX instead
of the default of A. This is needed for some sites. However, you will
lose (as far as I can tell) any aliases in your /etc/hosts file. As
originally distributed, sendmail will not append the domain name to single
token address, this is assumed to be done by sendmail.cf. 

If you compile without NAMED_BIND, then you gain the aliases in /etc/hosts,
but you lose the use of MX records, for those sites that need mail exchangers.

I will update Makefile so you can type "make named" or "make nonamed"
to compile your choice and I'll repost on ~ftp/pub.

As always, comments are welcome... really...

...and sorry about that semi-flame before.

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           Jim Jagielski                    NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1
     jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov               Greenbelt, MD 20771

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