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From: porphano@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Paul Orphanos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Is the sendmail.fc file really frozen???
Summary: I lose my domain after awhile when mailing messages
Message-ID: <1466@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Date: 23 Mar 91 16:42:09 GMT
Reply-To: porphano@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Paul Orphanos)
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Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
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I set up sendmail 5.65 (no IDA) so I'd get file locking, and get rid
of the clutter in my spool dirs...everything seems to work fine (for a
couple of months, at least).

I mailed something to someone here at lehigh the other day, and got a
message back saying that my domain was'nt in the address when a reply
was attempted. For example:

I'm at porphano@calvin.sfc.lehigh.edu

But the message was delevered identifying porphano@calvin as the
sender. I was mailing out of my subnet, so the entire address
should've been generated (it usually is when things are 'normal', if
there is such a thing).

The funny part is that if I simply rebuild the sendmail.fc file,
everything's back to normal. This happened once before too, and I
applied the same remedy...no problem.

Do I just sit around, and wait until it breaks again? Another notable
item is that when I rebuild the sendmail.fc file, it's a different
size than before (I did'nt touch the sendmail.cf file). So it seems to
be that sendmail is fooling around with the fc file.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated....I though I could set this
up and leave it alone. Just like everything else on this system :^)

Thanks in advance....
Paul