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- From: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (Robert Stephens)
- Subject: Re: sendmail on Indigo
- Message-ID: <shcmfp4@sgi.sgi.com>
- Sender: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:53:01 GMT
- Lines: 58
-
- mabry@julio.sanders.lockheed.com (Mark Mabry) writes:
- >
- > I am having trouble setting up sendmail on our new Indigo R4000.
- > After some work I am able to receive mail from any host, but cannot
- > send mail at all.
-
- Do you have copies of the "bounced" messages? What do you see if you
- run "Mail -v"?
-
- > My machine appears to add a ".ether" to the full
- > mailpath name.
-
- Don't worry about that. It's just shorthand sendmail uses in verbose
- mode to let you know it's using the "ether" mailer. ".ether" is not
- actually added to the destination address. Yes it's silly and confusing.
-
- > Here is the output of /usr/etc/configmail list:
- >
- > Parameters:
- >
- > forwarder = "relay"
- > rootdomain = "sanders.lockheed.com"
- > directdomains = "sanders.lockheed.com"
-
- Is denali the relay or MX host for the entire sanders.lockheed.com domain?
- Can denali directly contact all hosts in the sanders.lockheed.com domain?
- If not, use "configmail set directdomains" to set directdomains to NULL.
-
- > localdomain = "sanders.lockheed.com"
- > pathalias = "/dev/null"
- > relayname = "relay"
- > deadhosts = "somewhere"
- >
- > Functions:
- >
- > domainrelay = "relay"
- > mycanonname = "denali.sanders.lockheed.com"
- >
- > Relay is aliased in /etc/hosts to the forwarder machine.
-
- What machine is the forwarder machine? Can denali contact it? Do you
- use either NIS or DNS prior to looking at /etc/hosts (see resolver(4) about
- hostresorder)? Are they authoritative? Do they understand "relay"?
-
- > Also, when
- > receiving mail my machine always greets the sending machine with
- > something like "HELO machinename.D, why do you call yourself
- > machinename.domainname".
-
- The message implies that your host knows the connecting host by a
- different name than the connecting host knows itself. If you do a
- "/usr/sbin/canonhost machinename" what do you get?
-
- I don't understand the .D
-
- - Robert Stephens
- Silicon Graphics Inc.
-
-