Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucbvax!DREA-XX.ARPA!DIAMOND From: DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA (Jim Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: [Jim Diamond : sendmail] Message-ID: <12424992356.25.DIAMOND@DREA-XX.ARPA> Date: 24 Aug 88 14:01:29 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 33 I sent out the following message a few weeks ago. Then our system decided to take a week or ten days off, so I'm not certain whether or not some helpful messages which came my way got returned. I did get one reply (from Andrew Myers (thanks)) but I couldn't get the file he recommended. If anyone else out there can be of assistance, I would be most grateful. ----------------------------------------- We have a 3130 which is connected to a local area network (speaking TCP/IP). One of the systems on the LAN is an arpanet gateway. I wanted to get sendmail set up to communicate with the rest of the world. I tried reading the S.G. documentation. It talked about a couple of files in a directory which didn't even come with our system. Thus that was little use. I tried modifying the copy of the sendmail.cf file which came with the system, according to the instructions contained therein. That didn't help either. Depending on how I set it up, I either get "user unknown" or "host unknown" type messages. Since we have ftp and telnet working well, I assume that the problem is most likely with my sendmail.cf file and not elsewhere. Before I spend possibly outrageous amounts of time becoming a sendmail expert, is there anyone out there who can either 1) enlighten me with a few sentences, or 2) send me a working sendmail.cf for a similar system. Thanks. Jim Diamond diamond@drea-xx.arpa -------