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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: HELP!  (sorry, I'm really stuck!)
Message-ID: <1991May7.050413.939@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 05:04:13 GMT
References: <4131@anasaz.UUCP>
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Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <4131@anasaz.UUCP> rusty@anasaz.UUCP (Rusty Carruth) writes:
>
>Machine 1: 386 running AT&T Unix System V R.3 (wins).  name - att386
>Machine 2: 386 running Interactive Unix 3.2.2 (I think)name - chad
>Machine 3: 386 running InterActive Unix 3.2            name - clyde
>
>When that sendmail.cf file is run on Machines 1 and 2, (note - only the
>system name is changed from one system to the other(ok, maybe we changed 
>the "who i talk to" as well))... ANyway, when it runs on "att386" or "chad"
>"everythign works fine" (as they say).  However, when I attempt to run
>it on "clyde", local mail gets into a forever loop, with mail calling sendmail
>calling mail calling ......

 Well, if you really want someone to debug your 'sendmail.cf' remotely with
minimal information, good luck!

 In the meantime, take a look at that symptom:

  sendmail calls mail calls sendmail calls mail ...

 This can only mean that you have the wrong local mailer definition.  Namely
mail (presumably /bin/mail) is being called with the wrong arguments.

 The best thing to try is to take the local mailer definition from the
'sendmail.cf' which works for local mail, and use that in the 'sendmail.cf'
which works for everything else.  However in copying the mailer
definition (the line beginning Mlocal), copy only:
 The program name (P=...), the flags (F=...) and the arguments
(A= ... - extending to the end of the mailer def).  Don't copy the
R= or S= strings.

 With some versions of /bin/mail, if you use 'mail user' the message
is delivered to the user.  With other versions, 'sendmail' is called
to forward the mail, and to deliver it you must use other options
such as 'sendmail -d user'.  You are obviously using options which are
inconsistent with the version of /bin/mail.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940