Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!bennett From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Include files munged (solution) Message-ID: <1991Mar20.002546.22663@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 20 Mar 91 00:25:46 GMT References: <1991Mar15.171216.1292@percy.rain.com> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 37 In article cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: >In article <1991Mar15.171216.1292@percy.rain.com> nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi) writes: > [...stuff deleted...} I am rid of NeXT's broken version of sendmail. > >care to elaborate on just how NeXT's sendmail is broken? Hmmm... I don't know if sendmail itself is broken, but it *is* a bit antiquated. Seems to me someone recently sent me mail from their NeXT and its sendmail was version 5.59 or some such fossil. Go get sendmail 5.65+IDA from uunet. That's the most current I know of. What *is* broken in NeXT's distribution is the sendmail.cf. I'm sure I don't know everything wrong with it, but one thing I've seen is that is mangles return paths that have the form site1!site2!user@machine.school.edu. site1 gets dropped from the return path, so replies bounce. For those new to UNIX, the peculiar Martian dialect in which sendmail.cf's are written is the bane of most UNIX system programmers/ administrators. Some tools are available in the comp.sources.unix archives at uunet, but most of us never find the time really to figure it out. No Rosetta stones are available, to the best of my knowledge. > >-- >-- "just 'cause you whinin' don't mean you singin' > the blues." -- the ghost of Robert Johnson Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "Well, I don't know, but I've been told, in the heat of the sun * * a man died of cold..." Oakland, 19 Feb. 1991, first time since * * 25 Sept. 1970!!! Yippee!!!! Wondering what's NeXT... :-) * **********************************************************************