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From: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Still trying to get smart routing working.
Keywords: sendmail config bsd ease routing
Message-ID: <412@execu.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 89 20:33:50 GMT
Reply-To: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Organization: Home for Recalcitrant Hackers
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I posted about 3 weeks ago that I was trying to convert our systems to using
smail and do some semi-intelligent routing...

Well, so far it hasn't gone too well.  I still have quite a list of folks that
are also interested if I can figure out the problems, but the amount of solid
info has been, uh, sparse.

Smail seems to compile pretty well, but I'm running into real problems with the
sendmail.cf file.  We're a bsd (Sun 4.0.broken) site for a main server, and
a lot of dec and sun and other machines around besides that.  It appears that
perhaps the sendmail.cf file is not reading the /etc/hosts file at all.

Pathalias seems to be going ok, we run it every night and use the add'l tools
to reformat for use by smail, etc.

Some basic questions...
Our alias file is, as Sun recommends, of the form
fred:	fred@execu
joe:	joe@prickleypear
...etc...

Is this the right form for smail/sendmail?  Should there be more/less info
in there?

The sendmail.cf from Sun seems to be messed up, at least according to the docs
I read in one of the Sun manuals.  Supposedly (no, I'm not a guru, not even
close) the construct for a rhs of $:$>8 should direct more processing to 
ruleset 8 - but there isn't a S8 in the file...  duh?

Again, if anyone has any ideas that could help, please send them to me.  And
please don't worry about repeating what you think someone else would have surely
said - they didn't, and if they do I'll STILL appreciate the info and confirmation.

Final note - is anyone aware of a program called [perhaps] 'ease' for use in
generating config files?  I tried to look it up, but I don't see it anywhere
in the indexes I've downloaded.

Thanks 

Dewey Henize
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