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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: DEFAULT_DOMAIN in 5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4.1
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.224130.864@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1993Jan7.173427.21982@sics.se>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:41:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.173427.21982@sics.se> uddeborg@sisu.se (Goeran Uddeborg) writes:
- >I have a NeXT machine that does not automatically append its domain
- >when gethostbyname() is used.
-
- That means that sendmail is doing gethostbyname() with /etc/hosts lookups,
- or NIS (or netinfo) lookups, instead of using the nameserver. I recommend
- you rebuild using the resolver library from the bind 4.8.3 release.
-
- > So I add it explicitly by defining
- >DEFAULT_DOMAIN. This does change the definition of $j as I would
- >expect, but it also defines the N option. When I later run sendmail
- >it complains that the N option is obsolete, and puts a copy of every
- >mail in dead.letter.
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- We corrected this problem a long time ago. Pick up a more recent copy
- of Sendmail.mc from mp.cs.niu.edu:/pub/cf/Sendmail.mc
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-