Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!baird!jim From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP support and Coloured Book software Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 14:03:18 GMT References: <2425@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Sender: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland. Lines: 33 In-reply-to: zlsiial@cs.man.ac.uk's message of 18 Apr 91 14:05:33 GMT >> 1) Is there anyone familiar with sendmail.cf and with the >> Coloured Book's mangling of this file who can suggest >> a change? The answer is (drum roll and fanfare of trumpets) to throw away the vendor-supplied sendmail.cf files and get hold of UK-sendmail. This is a package that churns out sendmail.cf files. You tell it what mail delivery agents you have and what hosts are reachable through them and it goes away and creates a sendmail.cf file to handle mail in precisely that way. It can do all sorts of other clever things too (like hiding a bunch of nodes under a single domain and flipping the domain ordering). Another PD program (C-nrs) will spit out the JANET table files for UK-sendmail from the NRS DERFIL. The advantage of this approach are simple: your mail works properly and you never have to worry about sendmail.cf files. The down side is that HP won't support anything other than the near-useless sendmail.cf files they provide. However, as these don't do what you want and the alternative works, this is not a problem. UK-sendmail and C-nrs are available from various sources archives in the UK. To save me digging out the details, these are also now available for anonymous NIFTP from uk.ac.strath.cs: Filename: /c-nrs.t.Z or /uksendmail.t.Z Username: guest Password: your-email-address Both files are compressed tar archives, so be sure to use the binary option when transferring them. The packages come with plenty of documentation and examples of config files. Jim