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From: cantrell@eemips.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Hiding behind NIC hosts
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Date: 31 Aug 90 22:39:32 GMT
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The latest release of Mips RISC/os 4.5 uses sendmail 5.61
and a sendmail.cf version 1.34 from Berkeley dated Jan 1989.

This sendmail.cf hides non-registered hosts behind a
NIC registered host when the destination is to domain
.arpa. Is this still necessary? I don't see other
sendmail.cf's doing this, and the README file from
Berkeley said the need to do this would be going away.

In addition, all mail for the csnet domain is forwarded
to the csnet relay machine. Is this still necessary or
does dns work to csnet?


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Pierce Cantrell                           Internet: cantrell@eemips.tamu.edu
Department of Electrical Engineering        
Texas A&M University                           tel: (409) 845-7441
College Station, Texas 77843-3128              fax: (409) 845-6259