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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: Can sendmail read sun's sendmail.cf directly?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.132934.8850@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1992Aug19.052822.22606@iti.gov.sg>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:29:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.052822.22606@iti.gov.sg> jameslow@iti.gov.sg (James Low (RC)) writes:
- >Hi, I have just downloaded sendmail-5.67 in order to implement something.
- >However, I would like to know how much work is needed. Namely, can I
- >use the sendmail.cf files that are found on the Sun's OS 4.1.X w/o modification?
- >I have done a few changes to these .cf files and will be terrible if I have
- >to start doing the same on new .cf files.
-
- The major differences which may cause problems in using the SunOS distributed
- 'sendmail.cf' versions are:
-
- $%x won't work on 5.67. SunOS config files use this to
- identify hosts on your local network. It might not
- be important, and possibly may just cause the 'ddn'
- mailer to be used rather than the 'tcp' mailer.
-
- $=x On 5.67 only single token class matches are permitted.
- This may cause problems with $=w (recognize local host).
- You won't know till you try it.
-
- $m SunOS version automatically define this to be your NIS
- domain name. You may need to add a 'Dm' line to define
- your domain.
-
- ${ .. $} No support for NIS lookups during processing. Also won't
- use your NIS aliases map.
-
- >I also saw a IDA+sendmail or something like that. What is that?
-
- This will come closer to behaving like the SunOS sendmail. Also has
- many other nifty features. You'll have to pick it up and read the
- documentation to see the full picture.
-
-