NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/mail/sendmail/1966

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From: [e-mail] (Tom Leach)
Subject: IDA sendmail with NIS aliases
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Keywords: IDA sendmail NIS aliases
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:31:09 GMT
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Has anyone set up IDA sendmail to have a mail server that gets it's aliases
from the NIS master server (where they are not the same system).
I'm trying to set up the following structure
System A is a NFS file server that other systems mount /var/spool/mail from
System B is a NIS server with a set of alias maps.
System C is the DNS and mail server.  it NFS hard mounts /var/spool/mail from
    system A, and gets aliases from system B.  No other systems should
    NFS mount any part of the mail/DNS server (system C).

The problem is with etting a correct m4 file for IDA.
(currently using sendmail 5.65c + IDA 1.4.4 with patch level 1)
(the above 3 systems are all Sun sparcs)

I've tried to define (NIS_MAILALIASES) but then I have to define
(NIS_MAILHOST).  If this is defined, any non-local mail is sent to the
NIS server (system B) which (I guess) is then suppose to pass on the mail.
I am trying to get the NIS server to only run NIS (no mail, dns, etc...)
Is there any slick way to define this in the m4 file or will this take a bit
of munging of the sendmail.cf file???

Thanks in advance.
Tom Leach
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