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From: juber@uceng.UC.EDU (james uber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: sendmail.5.6.1+IDA .cf files
Keywords: sendmail configuration
Message-ID: <7696@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 8 Mar 91 20:17:27 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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I am setting up a new site with 3 400 series apollo nodes
and am having some trouble with internet mail.  tcp/ip
works fine and i seem to be well connected.  We are using
a name server running on a communications hub for our college.

I have ftp'd and compiled sendmail.5.6.1+IDA from the Univ.
of Illinois site, and also got a copy of Willem Jan Withagen's
sendmail.cf file to start with (ftp from ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl).
Basically, sendmail works fine for outgoing internet mail,
but anything incoming, including local mail, does not work.

Outgoing internet mail to user@hostname.domain_name such as:

% sendmail -v -t < file

where "file" contains something like:
To: user@hostname.domain_name
Subject: Hi

message text
EOF

gives what appears to be a normal transcript of the communication
between hosts, and the mail is deposited correctly.  The same procedure
from the remote host for incoming mail again gives a normal transcript
on the remote host, saying that the mail was sent, but the mail
is never deposited correctly on my node so that it can be read (i.e.
there is no mail for "user").  

On the local node, if I send local mail such as:

% sendmail -v -t < file

where file sends mail to a local user, i get the following response:

user... Connecting to  (local)...
rgyc_$pgo_get_projlist: No such file or directory
mail: mail: can't find mail group

user... Sent

I am looking for some advice on whether: 1) there is an obvious
problem that i can fix easily that will make everything just fine, or
2) i have to accept the fact that i need to *understand* sendmail.cf
files.

Thanks for any advice.
Jim Uber
juber@uceng.uc.edu