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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: mail11v3
Message-ID: <174@indri.primate.wisc.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 89 16:18:15 GMT
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From article <4899@hubcap.clemson.edu>, by hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Marshall):
> I believe I have determined that you can't use /usr/bin/mail11v3 without
> using DEC's sendmail. At least I have determined that my sendmail.cf file
> bombs out trying to do an mx lookup on host::host using sendmail 5.61 and
> works fine using the sendmail executable delivered with ULTRIX. Same with
> DEC's sendmail.cf - works fine with their executable, but bombs using
> 5.61.

sendmail doesn't try the name server unless your sendmail.cf tells it to,
right?  (i.e., via $[..$])  Are you telling it to ask the name server, if
the address looks like a::b, and if so, why?

Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu		rhesus!dubois
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