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- From: jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joseph Chin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Sendmail problem - SOLVED!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.011653.12994@prodigy.bc.ca>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 01:16:53 GMT
- Sender: news@prodigy.bc.ca
- Reply-To: jchin@prodigy.bc.ca
- Organization: Prodigy Technologies Corp.
- Lines: 33
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- Thank you to all those who tried their best to help me solve my sendmail
- problem ...
-
- The problem: My NeXT began to think it was its own mailhost where it was
- actually a mail client to a Sun mail server ... this led to all sorts of
- problems such as not being able to send email to machines within the same
- domain.
-
- I tore apart the whole /etc directory and NetInfo databases to look for
- any stray entries that might have caused the NeXT to think it was a
- mailhost , but to no avail.
-
- Finally, after feeling sick (I caught a cold on the weekend), tired, and
- defeated, I realized that after I performed the 3.0 upgrade, I went
- through all the network configuration files and databases and cleaned up
- entries in NetInfo that might be "unnecessary" duplicates of NIS. In my
- infinite wisedom, I removed the NetInfo host entry (under /machines) for
- our domain's email server. Conventional wisedom would figure that if the
- NeXT can't find the mailhost info in NI, it would look in the flatfile
- databases which point to NIS where the mailhost can be found ...
-
- But no ... the smart black box decided that if there is no mailhost in NI,
- then the local machine must be the mailhost! Duhhhhhh!!!
-
- Anyways, the solution was pretty straight forward - add the Sun mailhost
- to NI - and everything has been working fine since (touch wood).
-
- 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!" ****
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