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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: sendmail/smail woes
Message-ID: <857@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 88 17:16:48 GMT
References: <2226@stpstn.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <2226@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>When I left Dj be $w.$D, it was sending out stpstn.ppiYP -- ppiYP is the yp
>domain.  Changing that to Djstepstone.com seemed to do the trick.

   This is in DIRECT CONTRADICTION to the Sun documentation which explicitly
states "YP domains have nothing to do with mail domains". Thanks to this
brain damage by Sun, I spent a day beating my head against the wall over this
one, too. I too had to resort to hard-coding my domain name into the sendmail
configuration file in order to convince Sun's sendmail that I really do know
what I am doing and that it should not try to be smarter than me. Jeez, if
they insist on hosing things up like this, the least they could do is
not claim to the contrary in the documentation. Fifty lashes at least.

--Greg