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From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: IBM Do It Again
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Date: 9 Apr 91 14:59:14 GMT
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I've got a sendmail.cf skeleton written using M4 that I use on most
machines here.  My gateway Sun runs IDA, but the others use the same
basic .cf.  Until I put it on an AIX 3.1 IBM RS/6000...

For some odd reason the OD, OF and OH options are thrown out!  This
doesn't surprise me, as the lousy sendmail on AIX 2.something on 6150s
(Hey!  IBM Support!) for some obscure reason didn't call Ruleset 3
before it called Ruleset 0.

Why do these people feel a need to make stupid, incompatible changes to
standard software?  To tie people in, I guess...like the many other
ludicrous changes in AIX in general.  For the sendmail to identify
itself as AIX 3.1/UCB 5.61 is downright nasty --- it ISN'T UCB 5.61
because it DOESN'T support D, F and H.

I don't care is some IBMite tells me its in the documents.  If it claims
to be UCB 5.61 it bloody well ought to be UCB 5.61.

ian