Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!etlcom!gama!paul From: paul@chipmunk.bk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Dr. Paul Fons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Sendmail setup Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 91 11:12:59 GMT Sender: news@gama.is.tsukuba.ac.jp Distribution: comp Organization: Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba Lines: 66 I have been trying to setup sendmail on my Sony RISC workstation under 4.3BSD and have been having some troubles. I build a sendmail.cf file using the utility Sony provides called mailconf with a descriptor file containing the following (desc.dat) name: bukko lower_level_name: chipmunk name: chipmunk.bukko lower_level_name: none newstaka: local chipmunk.bukko bukko which generated a (rather large) sendmail.cf file, which I then attempted to use by installing it in /usr/lib/sendmail.cf and restarting the sendmail deamon. When I attempted to send mail however I am faced with the following message From paul Fri Feb 1 19:44:29 1991 Return-Path: Received: by chipmunk.domain (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AB01670; Fri, 1 Feb 91 19:44:26 JST Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 19:44:26 JST From: Mailer-Daemon (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown Message-Id: <9102011044.AB01670@chipmunk.domain> To: paul Status: R ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 Host mailhost not found for mailer ether. 550 paul@bk.tsukuba.ac.jp... Host unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: Received: by chipmunk.domain (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA01668; Fri, 1 Feb 91 19:44:26 JST Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 19:44:26 JST From: paul (Dr. Paul Fons) Message-Id: <9102011044.AA01668@chipmunk.domain> To: paul@bk.tsukuba.ac.jp Subject: test mail This mail fails ... what is wrong? Any ideas what is going on (for those that know about Sony's). I also attempted to build a freeze file by using /usr/lib/sendmail -bz as root with the sendmail process terminated to build the sendmail.fc file, but the file remained zero length after the command -- any ideas as to what might be causing this? -- Dr. Paul Fons University of Tsukuba Institute of Applied Physics Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken JAPAN 305 paul@bk.tsukuba.ac.jp fax: (0)298-53-5205