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From: duncan@hoser.MIPS.Com (Duncan Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Sendmail on MIPS RISC/os 4.51
Keywords: sendmail mips
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Date: 26 Feb 91 21:30:41 GMT
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In article <3836@tdw206.ed.ray.com>, heiser@tdw206.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser - Unix Sys Admin) writes:
|> 
|> This is probably a simple one.  I adminster a bunch of Sun systems, and am
|> now working on several MIPS systems.  I am trying to get sendmail to work
|> to send mail to users at other hosts on the local ethernet (and possibly
|> beyond).  Inbound mail seems to work fine -- I can send mail to users
|> on the mips machine and sendmail correctly forwards mail to the user.
|> Outbound mail, however, fails.
|> 
|> -------
|> mips1 # mailx heiser@sud509
|> Subject: test
|> EOT
|> Null message body; hope that's ok
|> aosp1 # rmail: Can't send to heiser@sud509
|> rmail: Return to root
|> ---------
|> 
|> mips1 # /usr/lib/sendmail -v heiser@sud509
|> test mail
|> heiser@sud509... Sent
|> aosp1 #
|> 
|> 
|> As shown here, mailx says that it has failed;  sendmail tells me 
|> the message has been sent, but there is no trace of it.  The syslog
|> show this:
|> 
|> Feb 22 11:46:26 aosp1 sendmail[8181]: AA08181: from=root, size=10, class=0, rece
|> ived from local
|> Feb 22 11:46:27 aosp1 sendmail[8181]: AA08181: to=heiser@sud509, delay=00:00:03,
|>  stat=Sent
|> 
|> 
|> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
|> 
|> Thanks in advance,
|> Bill Heiser
|> 
|> 
|> 
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The default /usr/lib/sendmail is a link to /usr/lib/sendmail.named, which
means it will expect to resolve hosts via calls to the nameserver. You will
need to link sendmail to sendmail.nonamed or set your system up for the 
nameserver. 

If you are not using the nameserver, and for the /usr/lib/sendmail.cf file I
believe is installed as default, you may also wish to comment out the Rule 0
line (around line 497) which appends the domain to all lookups where the top
level domain is unknown. It will force you to specify hosts as
fully qualified hostnames in your /etc/hosts file.

This rule zero line reads as:

R$*<@$->$*              $:$1<@$2.$D>$3                  if nameserver fails


Duncan Poole                                        MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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