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From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: mail problem on 9000/350's
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Date: 5 Feb 91 19:49:03 GMT
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rjc@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Robert Collins) writes:
>We are having problems with local delivery of mail.  We are running
>HPUX 7.0 on our 9000/350's.  We are running YP.

Try "praliases".  HP's sendmail has some serious bugs when YP is running.
If praliases doesn't give the results you expect (for me, it simply showed
no known aliases) then this is the problem.

Below is an excerpt from our /etc/netbsdsrc file showing the kludge to
work around this bug.  There are a bunch of places in this file where
the fix is needed, and you must fix this for every machine on your network.

    YPNAME=`/bin/domainname`
    /bin/domainname ""
    /usr/lib/sendmail -bz
    /bin/domainname "$YPNAME"
    /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m && /bin/echo "sendmail  \c"

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Jim Wright
jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.