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- From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg)
- Subject: Re: Can sendmail read sun's sendmail.cf directly?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.112414.29481@cs.few.eur.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl
- Reply-To: pk@cs.eur.nl
- Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
- References: <1992Aug19.052822.22606@iti.gov.sg> <1992Aug19.132934.8850@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:24:14 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In <1992Aug19.132934.8850@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
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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.
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- > The major differences which may cause problems in using the SunOS distributed
- >'sendmail.cf' versions are:
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- > $%x won't work on 5.67. SunOS config files use this to
- > [...]
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- > ${ .. $} No support for NIS lookups during processing. Also won't
- > use your NIS aliases map.
- > [...]
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- I found the NIS lookup features in Sun's sendmail rather useful, so I hacked
- the $%x and ${ .. $} syntax into version 5.67 (which we run on our Sun systems
- for sanity reasons). We use the NIS features to maintain multiple domains on
- out mail server.
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- -pk
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