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From: rosalia@mozart.UUCP (Mark Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: domains
Message-ID: <167@mozart.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 17:27:01 GMT
References: <2987@hall.cray.com> <1984@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <2965@drivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rosalia@mozart.UUCP (Mark Galassi)
Organization: Mark Galassi Research, Stony Brook, New York.
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In article <2965@drivax.UUCP> braun@drivax.UUCP (Kral) writes:
>We are running BSD4.2 on a Vax 11/780.  
>Does one have to use a particular mailer to be 'domain smart', or does it 
>require having certain info in the mail databases?  Our mailer is the standard
>mailer that comes with Berkeley.

If you have 4.2, you get the sendmail program, which can be made
"domain-smart" by tuning the sendmail.cf.  This is a horrible task,
but there are ways of making it easier:

First of all, get the smail mailer from the source archives (if you cannot do
that, let me know and I can send them to you.  Then you follow the steps
to replace your "rmail" and "binmail" with what comes in the smail package,
and then they have a script which customizes the sendmail.cf file for you.

I have used smail both with and without sendmail, and with sendmail it
did both arpanet mail (over IPC channels) and uucp mail (where the
sendmail.cf file hands the jobs over to smail), and it works beautifully.

So my advice sums up to:  use smail with sendmail if you have it, but
by itself otherwise.
-- 
						Mark Galassi
					...!{sbcs,icus}!mozart!rosalia
{ these opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-) }