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From: cantrell@eemips.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: sendmail.cf for RISC/os 4.5
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Date: 30 Aug 90 15:48:40 GMT
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The boilerplate version of sendmail.cf being distributed
with RISC/os 4.5 will not work with addresses of the
form user@host.bitnet or user@host.csnet. The problem
is that the sendmail.cf file does not define the
internet gateway, which sendmail.cf attempts to
append to the From: address.

It looks to me like someone at mips built a version
of sendmail.cf using the m4 sendmail compiler and
then edited the results to get the various boilerplate
.cf files. This is a good example of why the m4 sendmail
compiler system should be documented and utilized
by mips.

I notice from the sendmail README files in /usr/lib/cf
that the need for hiding behind and internet gateway
when sending to domain .arpa was supposed to go away.
Since this code is dated in early 1989, I wonder if
this has come to pass? 
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