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From: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: user@uucp_host dying
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Date: 23 Aug 90 16:13:41 GMT
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 This is on a Sun SS1 under 4.1..

 I have my sendmail.cf set up so that ether's the DM (default mailer);
subsequently, whenever people tried to send mail to blah@uuhost, it'd fail
with "unknown host in domain widener . edu"..it had me baffled. I figured
that sun would've already taken care of iodiocyncracies (sp) like this.
 At any rate, I came up with a fix...now it'll see if the uucp host name
is an ethernet host...if that fails, it'll feed it to the uucp mailer. I'm
digging from memory, but I think it was (in ruleset 0):

# blah ABOVE this line are absolute addresses.
blah			$#ether $:$1 $@$2	# user@etherhost
R$*<@$2>		$#uucp $:$1 $@$2

<the $#error entries start here>
 The first part of that was copied from the u@h -> u!h entry in ruleset 5,
and the second was just a copy of the $#ether's second half.
 It's parsed down pretty much everything okay so far; can anybody either
come up with any reasons why I *shouldn't* do this, or come up with a better
way of fixing it?

 Thanks!


Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu
For now: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu | Or: bkehoe@widener.bitnet