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From: terry@rottie.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Smail3.1 and YP
Message-ID: <1990Sep2.014823.28944@rottie.manhattan.ks.us>
Date: 2 Sep 90 01:48:23 GMT
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terry@eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) writes:

>I am trying to use smail3.19 and force it to get it's maps from YP.  
>It keeps trying to access the database file rather than calling
>YP for the info.  

>I have the following in the EDITME file

>ALIASES_FILE=/etc/aliases
>ALIASES_TYPE=yp

>and have a valid yp map called aliases.  This is on a Sun 4/20 
>running SunOS 4.1.  Anybody have any clues?  Thanks in advance for 
>your help.  

Sorry for being such a dunce.  I experimented and looked in the sources
and found that what I needed was:

ALIASES_FILE=mail.aliases
ALIASES_TYPE=aliasyp

All you need to do then is keep a copy of sun's sendmail around to 
use when making the YP dbm files, and you are set.  


>--
>Terry Hull 
>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
>Work:  terry@eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry
-- 
Terry Hull 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
Work:  terry@eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry