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From: dan@asihub.autosys.com (Dan O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: YP aliases on VAX & SUN
Message-ID: <286@asihub.autosys.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 15:31:21 GMT
References: <1889@infbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@asihub.UUCP (Dan O'Neill)
Organization: Cadence Design Systems
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In article <1889@infbs.UUCP> neitzel@infbs.uucp writes:
>
>I have no success with YP aliases on an Ethernet with both a VAX and a
>SUN.  The YP mail aliases are defined on the VAX (running Ultrix), and
>"ypcat aliases" works fine on the Sun.  The Sun runs the standard
>sendmail from its 4.0.3 OS.
>
>* Any hints?
>						Martin Neitzel

Sun Sendmail does not recognize YP aliases that are served by an
Ultrix system.  Here is a copy of the official bug report from Sun.

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 Bug Id:     1030087
 Product:  sunos
 Category:  utility
 Subcategory:  sendmail
 Release summary: 4.1, 4.0.3
 Bug/Rfe:  bug
 State:  dispatched
 Synopsis:  sendmail yp aliasing does not work with non sun yp masters
 Keywords:  masters, aliasing, yp, ultrix, mail, yellow, pages, sendmail
 Severity:  2
 Priority:  2
 Responsible Manager:  melohn
 Description:
	Set up a yp domain with a ultrix yp master and a yp alias map
	create a valid alias entry in the mail.aliases map eg.

	ypmatch plap mail.aliases
	plap@flash

	now use mail to resolve the address:-

	/usr/lib/sendmail -d27.1 -bv plap
	Version 4.0
	alias(plap)
	Yellow pages domain is watchmoor.UK.Sun.COM
	plap... User unknown
	alias(gerhard)
	gerhard maps to         chris.gerhard
	gerhard (, gerhard) aliased to  chris.gerhard
	alias(chris.gerhard)
	chris.gerhard maps to   gerhard@flash
	chris.gerhard (, chris.gerhard) aliased to      gerhard@flash
	gerhard@flash... deliverable
 Work around:
	Use a sun as the yp master.
 Public Summary:
	Yp aliasing does not work with some non sun yp masters.
 Bug End:

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Dan O'Neill                     Cadence Design Systems
dan@autosys.com                 San Diego, CA
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