Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: "buildaddr: no host"? Message-ID: <1991Feb14.222848.25078@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 14 Feb 91 22:28:48 GMT References: Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 33 In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >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: What is happening here is that 'sendmail' is not recognizing your local mailer as a local mailer. I am not quite sure why it didn't complain that there is no local mailer, though. Perhaps it has a split personality and half thinks there is a local mailer. The long and short of it is, you can't do that. The local mailer is supposed to be local. I recommend you use the IDA configuration files. The most recent announced version is 1.4.2, but there are some changes to bring it to level 1.4.2.9. You can pick up the 1.4.2 version of 'Sendmail.mc' and a patch to upgrade it, in mp.cs.niu.edu:/pub/cf You should then look into the MAILSERVER option, which is designed to forward local mail to a server. There were some problems in the early implementation of MAILSERVER, which is why you should install the patch. I believe this will solve most of your problems. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940