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From: aggarwal@NISC.JVNC.NET (Vikas Aggarwal)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: SENDMAIL configuration
Message-ID: <9011051727.AA16922@nisc.jvnc.net>
Date: 5 Nov 90 17:27:10 GMT
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
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I have spent enough time trying to figure it out for myself, and
now I want to know if there is an easier way...

I am trying to set up sendmail on our Sun 4, and I have the latest
version of bind and sendmail (with MX kludge, etc, etc) running.

I have a host, call it "A.FOO.NET", and I wanted that mail addresses
of the form "user@foo.net" be accepted by the mailer on A.FOO.NET.

I set up an MX record for FOO.NET which points to A.FOO.NET so
that mail destined for "user@foo.net" gets to this host atleast.
My problem lies in the A.FOO.NET mailer accepting the fact that
mail addressed to "user@foo.net" actually implies itself.

I am using the standard Berkeley config files, and finally got
the whole thing to work by adding ruleset 8 where I replaced
an occurrence of "@DOMAIN" with "@host.domain".

I have bounced mail of berkley.edu (a.k.a ucbvax.berkeley.edu)
and noticed that that mailer does not do any replacement stuff.
I would prefer to do something like that.

Can I create a name server entry where "A.FOO.NET" is a CNAME
for "FOO.NET" - then the resolver routines will automagically
replace the FOO.NET with A.FOO.NET - but maybe my nameserver
will choke...

Any ideas / suggestions (postmaster@berkeley.edu ....?!!) ??


-vikas

  vikas@nisc.jvnc.net					(609) 258-2403
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