Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: "buildaddr: no host"? Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 20:50:58 GMT Sender: usenet@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 31 (Be gentle with me - though I have some examples, this is my first solo sendmail.cf :-) While installing 5.65+IDA on a Sun SPARCstation-1 under SunOS 4.0.3c, I find myself having the following odd interaction. When my Mlocal looks like Mlocal, P=[IPC], F=mDFMpXLCU, S=10, R=10, A=IPC mstar, E=\r\n (that is, all "local" delivery should happen via SMTP to local host "mstar"), I see the following: 220 volitans.morningstar.com Sendmail (line no{se) 5.65a/91021403 slinging bits at Thu, 14 Feb 91 15:34:47 -0500 helo scifo.morningstar.com 250 Hello scifo.morningstar.com, pleased to meet you mail from: 554 buildaddr: no host 554 buildaddr: no host 554 buildaddr: no host 554 setsender: can't even parse postmaster! But when Mlocal is Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=UDFMlmnrs, S=9, A=mail -d $u all seems well. I'd prefer to use SMTP to deliver to the machine that exports /usr/spool/mail, rather than a local /bin/mail, in order to avoid potential file locking conflicts. Any suggestions? Where might I begin looking for the cause of the buildaddr and setsender complaints?