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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: putting it on the internet
- Message-ID: <npnjof4@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <31536@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:01:03 GMT
- Lines: 36
-
- In article <31536@adm.brl.mil>, SUTPHINWB@npt.nusc.navy.mil (SUTPHIN WILLIAM B) writes:
- > I am interested in connecting a system to the internet also. I'm
- > partically interested in receiving mail. All I have is the sendmail.cf
- > file I received from SGI. Any help will be apprecieated.
-
-
- The "auto-config" sendmail available on sgi.com in ~ftp/sgi/sendmail
- might be useful. Or just the "auto-config" version that came
- with IRIX 4.0.1. To use the auto-configuring version
-
- /etc/killall sendmail
- mv /usr/lib/sendmail.cf /usr/lib/sendmail.cf.old
- mv /usr/lib/sendmail.cf.auto /usr/lib/sendmail.cf
-
- and then run /etc/configmail, as described in `man configmail` or in
- configmail's help messages.
-
- If configmail does not work, producing a servicable Internet or even
- local MX email configuration, it would be nice to hear about it.
- (Please don't write me--feel free to post to comp.sys.sgi or mail to
- info-iris or even contact the TAC.) We would like to make configmail
- the standard sendmail.cf mechanism as soon as the software release
- gatekeepers allow it.
-
- Please don't ask me to debug a sendmail.cf. I gave up that hobby years
- ago. It's rarely fun to debug someone else's code, and never when they
- have written it in sendmail.cf, do not really understand the issues,
- and, as is too often but not always the case, unable to admit their
- relative of lack expertise.
-
- I won't identify the reigning SGI sendmail.cf king and configmail
- author, because he has apparently tired of the "rewards" in helping
- other people fix their sendmail.cf's.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-