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From: etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail 5.65 frozen config problem on apollo
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Date: 27 Mar 91 21:17:26 GMT
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This may be known problem (more in a moment), but I don't recall
seeing it in the news, so I thought I'd report it.

I have been using sendmail 5.65 (plain, no IDA stuff) for a
few weeks on an apollo DN3500, OS 10.3. Last week I got around 
to making a sendmail.fc, frozen configuration.

Not a happy situation 8-(

It started sending two copies of every outgoing message
because it doesn't seem to clear the queue properly after the
first transmission. It also mangles headers in a variety of
ways.

Deleting sendmail.fc cures it.

The only sendmail revision I could find (in an admittedly brief search)
at ftp sites was sendmail-5.65b+IDA. So I acquired it, and while
looking at the Makefile and conf.h, I noticed a comment and
some #ifdef's about platforms that won't work with a frozen
config file--including apollo. Thus it appears that someone
else has noticed this, too.

So: Is this an apollo-ism that's fixable? Is there a workaround
other than "don't use the frozen config"? Do previous versions
of sendmail work better on apollos (OS 10.1-10.3)?

Thanks everybody,

Eric Bushnell
Univ of Washington Civil Engineering
etb@zeus.ce.washington.edu
etb@milton.u.washington.edu