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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
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Subject: Re: Config files
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Date: 17 Oct 88 11:12:11 GMT
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|> My problem is that we have a ethernet on which we have many differnet
|> machines including suns and micro-vaxes
|> On one machine (a vax) we run mmdf. We would like to arrange
|> for all the machines to send mail that they cannot resolve to this vax.
|> If the user says fred@xxy.ac.uk then we pass this to the vax ok
|> but if the user say fred@somewhere sendmail tries to send this to
|> a host called somewhere on our net (it fails).
|> In the comments to the ultrix gereric.mc 3.3 it appears that
|> we can define FS/etc/hosts and this looks as if this should spot that
|> "somewhere" is undefined and try our central machine but this is not the
|> case
|> What am I doing (or not doing) wrong?

You are going wrong on two counts. Firstly, you're using (or adapting)
a vendor-supplied "generic" sendmail.cf file. This is almost always a
mistake as they invariably fail to do what they claim to. Secondly,
you're not using Jim Crammond's configuration file compiler kit. This
makes configuring sendmail a doddle and has the advantage of being
easily maintainable. It will cure your sendmail troubles, so get hold
of a copy and use it!

[To the list maintainer: perhaps you could post an advert for this
kit, explaining what it is and how to get it, to the DL every now and
again. An alternative would be to pass this information to folk who
join the list. I'm surprised that some people on this DL are unaware
of Jim Crammond's compiler kit. It seem a pity that the DL looks to be
headed for discussions of the minutae of the FooBar Computer Company's
"generic" sendmail.cf file version AA.BB.CC.DD.EE.]

		Jim