Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!cns!umaida!jf From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Info on Sendmail Configuration Package UK-2.1 Message-ID: <1991Jan15.170230@ap.co.umist.ac.uk> Date: 15 Jan 91 17:02:30 GMT References: <13738@encore.Encore.COM> <1991Jan10.152920.121@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk> Sender: usenet@cns.umist.ac.uk (News System) Reply-To: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest) Organization: UMIST Computation dept, Manchester, UK Lines: 37 In article , mike@chorus.fr (Mike Bayliss) writes: |> >>>>> On 10 Jan 91 15:29:20 GMT, rknight@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk (Roger |> >>>>> Knight (B21)) said: |> |> Roger> In article <13738@encore.Encore.COM> |> Roger> gaguiar@pinocchio.encore.com (George Aguiar-Consultant) writes: |> >Does anyone have an opinion on the above mentioned package? Is it |> >really better than hacking sendmail.cf directly? Is 2.1 the most up |> >to date release? Is there any other PD software that accomplishes the |> >same thing? ( ie. generate sendmail.cf file ) |> > |> >Thanks in advance, |> >--gaguiar |> |> Roger> One posible problem: it was written for use in the UK JANET |> Roger> network which uses big-endian addresses. However there is a |> Roger> switch to reverse addresses so they are little-endian for the |> Roger> rest of the world so it might work OK. |> |> It's not a problem, you can generate a sendmail.cf that knows nothing |> about JANET addresses, and it works. (If I remember right, it works |> internally with little-endian addresses and the JANET switch was just |> to let you recognize and convert incoming JANET addresses.) I've forgotton what Uk-sendmail does now with the problem cases: cs.man.ac.uk uk.ac.man.cs or at least what they will do with "cs" in the top domain list. There are rules in the start-up phase that try to spot a reversed (grey-book) address, and reverse it if so. I can't remember which was round ambiguities work for. Of course, maybe you can disable all this? I'd recommend you use IDA anyway. John Forrest Dept of Computation UMIST