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From: murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail 5.65 frozen config problem on apollo
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Date: 28 Mar 91 18:48:04 GMT
References: <19116@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy)
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etb@milton.u.washington.edu writes:
>I have been using sendmail 5.65 (plain, no IDA stuff) for a
>few weeks on an apollo DN3500, OS 10.3. [...]
>
>Not a happy situation 8-(

I had all kinds of problems with sendmail on an Apollo (thanks to Neil
Rickert for helping me out).  I never thought of not using a sendmail.fc file
but there are many other problems to be aware of, not the least of which
is the fact that using the "r" option in the "F=" field of your Mlocal
definition is not compatible with the version of /bin/mail that OS 10.3
comes with, even though that sendmail.cf also comes with the same OS
release.  This prevented inbound mail from other machines via SMTP.

Another problem is $w gets defined as the host's IP address and not the
hostname.  I had to change the DA$w line to DAhostname.

Also, the Apollo sendmail.cf didn't resolve incoming mail to the local
mailer, but instead to the tcplocal mailer, causing "I refuse to talk
to myself" errors.

There were a lot of other problems (which may well be specific to our site,
but I doubt it), which were eventually fixed by copying a sendmail.cf from
another machine, tweaking it here and there, and freezing it.

=============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
Motorola Canada, Ltd.     Communications Division, Toronto      [on work term]
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada               2B Math/Computer Science
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