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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: sendmail.5.6.1+IDA .cf files
Keywords: sendmail configuration
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Date: 11 Mar 91 13:11:20 GMT
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In article <7696@uceng.UC.EDU>, juber@uceng.UC.EDU (james uber) writes:
|> 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.
|> 

This version is miles out of date - 5.65b+IDA1.4.3 is now out. At least try
the new version (we run the prev one 5.65a+IDA1.4.2 on 10.1 without that many
problems). The second point is that IDA is very much the .cf file production
mechanism, rather than the binary. If you are going to use the IDA binary, why
not generate an IDA .cf file? This is much easier than equivalents.

John Forrest
Dept of Computation
UMIST