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From: brook@ut-emx.UUCP (Brook Milligan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: DS3100 and sendmail config.
Keywords: Help!
Message-ID: <24974@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 16:47:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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I am configuring sendmail on a DS3100 (Ultrix v3.1/UWS v2.1).  I can
send mail to another host on the same local network, but cannot
receive mail from that same host nor can I send mail from the DS3100
to myself (or another login) on the DS3100.  When I do so I get the
following message from invoking `mail -v brook <letter'

brook... Connecting to .local...
mail: cannot append to /usr/spool/mail/brook/brook
Mail saved in dead.letter
brook... unknown mailer error 1
Saving message in /usr/users/brook/dead.letter
/usr/users/brook/dead.letter... Sent

To test the address resolution of this case I invoked
`/usr/lib/sendmail -bt' and received the following result:

ADDRESS TEST MODE
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> * brook
rewrite: ruleset  3   input: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset  8   input: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset  8 returns: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset  3 returns: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset  0   input: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset  0 returns: "^V" "local" "^X" "brook"

The only changes I have made to /usr/lib/sendmail.cf are

DDbotany.utexas.edu
FS/etc/hosts %*[0-9.]%s

The /etc/hosts file is

#
# Host Database
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
128.83.173.1	trillium.botany.utexas.edu	trillium 
128.83.173.2	mimulus.botany.utexas.edu	mimulus 

Is there something else I need to configure?  Why can sendmail not
connect to `local'?

Thanks for your help.
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Brook G. Milligan                   Internet:   brook@emx.utexas.edu
Department of Botany                Bitnet:     bohk313@utaivc
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