Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!think.com!news From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: "buildaddr: no host"? Message-ID: <1991Feb14.222613.3587@Think.COM> Date: 14 Feb 91 22:26:13 GMT References: Sender: news@Think.COM Reply-To: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Organization: Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge MA Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) In article , vixie@decwrl (Paul A Vixie) writes: ]>> Mlocal, P=[IPC], F=mDFMpXLCU, S=10, R=10, A=IPC mstar, E=\r\n ]>> [...] ]>> 554 buildaddr: no host ] ]IPC needs a $h in the A=. You basically can't do what you want to do, ]though I admit that it makes sense. ($h can't be coerced to be some ]constant string like "mstar" at this point in the delivery process, ]so that's not an option either.) Hmm. We have no problem doing this, without the satellite mailers knowing anything whatsoever about aliases. You can, of course, invoke the local mailer with a host. Here are a few excerpts from our satellite sendmail.cf to show what we do. Obviously, our satellite mailers are completely stupid. There's no reason I can see why I couldn't have chosen the local mailer here. DNmail.think.com Mlocal, P=[IPC], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h Mprog, P=[IPC], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h Mether, P=[IPC], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h S11 S21 # None needed. S0 # everything else is a local name R$+ $#ether $@$N $:$1 local names -- ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk (postmaster) Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)234-2116