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- From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver)
- Subject: Re: sendmail problem
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- Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department
- References: <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> <1993Jan7.222922.4587@prodigy.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:29:44 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1993Jan7.222922.4587@prodigy.bc.ca> jchin@prodigy.bc.ca writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> jchin@prodigy.bc.ca
- >(Joseph Chin) writes:
- >> I've just noticed that since I upgraded to 3.0, I can no
- >> longer send email to accounts within my domain
- >> (prodigy.bc.ca). Is there a bug in the 3.0 sendmail.cf
- >> file? The NeXT is a mail client on the network, and the
- >> mail host is a Sun Sparc server. Everything worked fine
- >> before the 3.0 upgrade.
- >
- >I forgot to add that the following was found in the
- >/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog file:
- >Jan 7 13:39:25 johnette sendmail[942]: AA00939: to=jchin, delay=00:00:04,
- >stat=Service unavailable, mailer=etherl
- >
- >Joe
- >--
- >Joseph Chin Prodigy Technologies Corp.
- >jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (NeXTmail welcome) Vancouver, British Columbia
- >phone 16046874636 / fax 16046871671 Canada
- > **** "Heaven won't take me and Hell's afraid I'll take over!" ****
-
- Okay, well we had so much trouble with sendmail and our network that we
- ended up almost completely rewriting the rule sets in many cases.
-
- Sendmail is an extremely complicated system and trying to figure out
- what is going wrong can be very difficult. There is however, a
- debugging mode: sendmail -bt, this will show you how addresses are being
- parsed on your NS and which rule set is being used.
-
- Also, make sure you are using the correct sendmail.cf file, the NeXT
- comes shipped with a number of them.
-
- At our site we ended up making our next a mailhost/server before we
- finally got things right... Then we had to modify Rule sets 0,D, and 1
- to get addresses to parse right, all in all a nasty job. The problems
- we had:
- (1) a VAX Domain Server running PMDF configured not to understand
- UNIX mail addressing conventions... sigh!
- (2) a dotted machine name, ralph.cs where there is no cs domain,
-
- and through all of this, w still got it to work.
-
- So good luck, read your manuals carefully, and discover the sendmail
- comp newsgroup.
-
- -Erik
-