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From: herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Help with UUCP mail and sendmail
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.145251.2329@sctc.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 14:52:51 GMT
Organization: SCTC
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    I have a standalone 030 cube running NS2.0 and am having trouble 
    setting up my external mail connection.  I have managed to set
    up a UUCP connection to a machine on the INTERNET and can receive
    mail at the address:

        <username>@alexander.mn.org   ( where "alexander" is the name
                                        of my machine, obviously )

    However, after hours of pouring over the available documentation on
    sendmail, rmail, and UUCP, I cannot figure what needs to be done to
    cause the NeXT Mail Agent ( and sendmail ) to recognize that all 
    domain style addresses are to be sent out over my UUCP connection.

    I have tried things like:

        tcnet!<user>@<host>.<domain>  ( where "tcnet" is the name of the 
                                        machine to which I am connected via
                                        UUCP )

    But the mail bounces back.

    What I would like ideally is to have names of the form:

        <user>@<host>.<domain>

    be sent out over the UUCP connection with their address intact so that
    tcnet could forward them appropriately, but I don't know how to 
    accomplish this.  My guess is that I'll have to modify some configuration
    file.  Perhaps "/etc/sendmail.cf"?
    
    What I've read seems to indicate that a rule will have to be placed in
    /etc/sendmail.cf that rewrites addresses, in which a domain is unrecog-
    nized, to a UUCP style address.  For example:

        <user>@<host>.<domain>

    would be rewritten as:

        tcnet!<user>@<host>.<domain>  

    but I am just guessing.

    Anybody want to help me out?  Thanks in advance. 



								- Max


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William R. Herndon                              
Secure Computing Technology Corp.                  
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