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From: larry@saruman.it.lut.fi (Lauri Toropainen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Sendmail & SCO UNIX (Was: Elm under SCO UNIX 3.2)
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.101646.13319@lut.fi>
Date: 28 Jun 91 10:16:46 GMT
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das@trac2000.ueci.com (David Snyder) writes:

>Yup, even though you tell ELM to use /usr/lib/sendmail instead of
>/usr/mmdf/bin/submit to send mail, you must still answer YES to the
>question about your MTA using MMDF.  Strange, I know :-)

Thanks!

>Please let me know how you got sendmail to work on your machine.  I
>basically have two types of mail comming from my SCO machine, local
>mail and everything else.  Thanks.

Well, I installed sendmail as described in SCO TCP/IP Runtime System
Administrator's Guide. However, I had to make some changes, that have
not been documented in this section. For instance:

1) In TCP login script /etc/rc2.d/S85tcp the hostname is defined as
   host.domain. However, sendmail gets the host name from this
   'hostname' feature and adds the domain name after it. As the result,
   the local addresses will look like host.domain.domain.

   So, in TCP script the hostname should be defined like

   hostname `uname -n`

   (DOMAIN has been dropped)

2) In sendmail documentation it has been described that sendmail will
   use the config. file /usr/lib/sendmail.cf as default. This file
   includes the rulesets for sendmail to understand different kinds of
   mail addresses.

   However, this file name should be given in startup. Otherwise, your
   sendmail will behave very strangely (e.g. trying to deliver local mail
   using SMTP instead of lmail).

   In my /etc/rc2.d/S85tcp I have

   /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m -C/usr/lib/sendmail.cf

   and now everything works ok.

I hope this helps.

Lauri

Signature?  What signature?  Let me read the small print first!