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- Path: sparky!uunet!ceco!chris
- From: chris@ceco.ceco.com (Chris Icide)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Mail and NFS 2.3
- Keywords: mail sendmail nfs os10.4
- Message-ID: <807@ceco.ceco.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 13:18:54 GMT
- Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co.
- Lines: 55
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- I am currently having a couple problems which seem to related. My
- configuration is as follows: DN3550 24MB, OS 10.4, NFS2.3.
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- 1) Our site is using a sun as both the site's name server and mailserver.
- The DN3550 works perfectly fine with the name server, and I am able
- to mount the sun's exported file systems with no problems. The user
- id's on the sun and apollo match (unix id #'s and names, groups, orgs,
- etc.). Users are able to read and write from the mounted file systems.
- Sendmail is currently set up to deliver mail to the mail server whether
- the intended addressee account is on the DN3550 or elsewhere. This works
- just fine. /usr/spool/mail is a remote file system (/var/spool/mail) on
- the sun. (Main environment for users is bsd4.3 /bin/csh)
-
- Problems:
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- If I try to set up sendmail to allow delivery to the DN3550, I run into
- a number of problems:
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- o Mail delivered from other nodes recieve a Sendmail message:
- "Deferred, connection refused" when trying to deliver mail. The
- mail never gets through.
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- o Mail delivered by the DN3550 to users on the DN3550 gets delivered
- fine (it shows up in the /usr/spool/mail directory). The mail
- filesize looks correct when I list the directory. However, if the
- user tries to read his/her mail via mail command, it says they have
- no mail ("No Mail for chris"). If the user logs on the sun, they
- recieve a message during login, "You have Mail", however they again
- are unable to read it. When this happens, the only way I am able to
- straighten things out is to become root, and copy the offending file
- (/usr/spool/mail/$USERNAME) to the user's home directory.
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- o Finally, if someone sends mail from the DN3550 node and the
- recipient uses the reply function, the reply will never make it
- back to the DN3550 due to the first problem listed above.
-
- I'd like to be able to have mail deliverable to the DN3550. I'd prefer
- to keep it separate from the sun mailserver. However, for all the
- different combinations I have tried, I am unable to achieve this. The
- apollo help line was of no assistance. (They sent me a 12 page
- dissertation on rulesets - which was very informative, but I think
- my problem does not lie in the delivery rules, but lies in the actual
- local sendmail.cf setup, i.e. domain name, forwarder, etc...).
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Chris
-
- | Engineer, Byron Nuclear Power Station, Commonwealth Edison Company |
- | Internet: chris@bynps0.byr.ceco.com or uunet!ceco!byr!bynps0!chris |
- | Wk Phone: (815) 234-5441 x2607 Hm Phone: (815) 494-4599 |
- | US Mail: Byron Station, 4450 N. German Church Rd., Byron Il, 61010 |
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