Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!chip From: chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO Unix sendmail initialization problem Message-ID: <1991May29.032142.16176@chinacat.unicom.com> Date: 29 May 91 03:21:42 GMT References: <675397058.24@sunbrk.FidoNet> Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Inc. Lines: 42 In article <675397058.24@sunbrk.FidoNet> Rich.Braun@sunbrk.FidoNet.Org (Rich Braun) writes: >I'd just as soon dump mmdf entirely, though SCO's documentation implies that >mmdf is superior and one should dump sendmail instead. SCO MMDF is quite usable - though the way it's distributed and the documentation (or lack thereof) might lead you to believe otherwise. To get the system happy, you absolutely need to do two things: - Run `/usr/mmdf/bin/checkup' and heed it's advice. And if you reconfigure `mmdftailor', run `checkup' again. - Get the documentation posted in two parts to the net (several times!) on how to setup SCO MMDF. Part two is chock full of examples of how to do it in a networked environment. >"How can I make it communicate with remote sendmail daemons?" You need to enable the `MCHN smtp' line in the `mmdftailor' file. It is probably also a good idea to edit `/etc/rc2.d/S86mmdf' to run `deliver' on the smtp channel. (SCO 3.2v0.0 didn't even start deliver - so first thing to do would be to create this file. Better yet, upgrade to 3.2v2.0.) >and my second is "Why doesn't mmdf handle domain name service?" Yes, that is a drag. Although I use a static hosts table, it would be nice if SCO MMDF did a gethostbyname() instead of making me retype `/etc/hosts' into `/usr/mmdf/table/smtp.chn'. >I'd like to hear from anyone who has had to set up e-mail on a TCP/IP- >based LAN containing SCO Unix systems mixed with others (AIX, NCR, and >so on) I've run an ODT box connected into a network consisting of an NCR Tower, a 3B2, and an ISC box. (Hi Bill!) All were running smail3.1, not sendmail, but the point is that SCO MMDF is an upright network citizen. -- Chip Rosenthal | Don't play that Unicom Systems Development 512-482-8260 | loud, Mr. Collins.