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- From: boening.pad@sni.de (Martin Boening)
- Subject: Re: Sendmail on SCO Unix
- Message-ID: <mboen.713618501@offbeat>
- Sender: news@nixpbe.sni.de
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
- References: <1992Aug11.035026.28767@honte.uleth.ca> <1992Aug11.123309.3396@mks.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:21:41 GMT
- Lines: 44
-
- In <1992Aug11.123309.3396@mks.com> davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander) writes:
-
- [stuff deleted ]
- >>before Sendmail will do this, it is necessary to create a sendmail.mx
- >>file (compiled version of sendmail.cf).
- >>
- >>1. Is this true ?
- >>
-
- >Not quite. Sun ships a sendmail.cf, and a sendmail.mx. The
- >latter is nothing more than a sendmail.cf which knows how to
- >talk to the nameserver. They do this because many sites don't
- >need the nameserver, so they don't need those bits of the .cf
- >file.
-
- Not quite, either. What Sun does is ship 2 versions of the sendmail
- program. There's your standard SunOS sendmail program, which does mostly
- local delivery and UUCP as well as to Internet hosts listed in a file
- called /usr/lib/mailhosts. It may or may not look up hostnames in YP -
- haven't got that figured out yet.
-
- Then there is sendmail.mx on Suns running SunOS 4.x. This is a version
- of the sendmail program which does nameserver lookups using the resolver
- library and works using MX records.
-
- Then there is the file sendmail.cf which is a sendmail configuration
- file for a dumb client which sends all outbound mail to a smart host.
-
- And there is a file sendmail.cf.main, which is a sendmail configuration
- file for said smart host - it has to be tailored to your local needs but
- this is mostly ``straightforward'' - if you can call anything related to
- a sendmail configuration file straightforward :-).
-
- In order to get a sendmail with DNS on Sun, you move the original
- sendmail program aside, then copy sendmail.mx t o sendmail and restore
- the permissions.
-
- And now, back to the regular program.
- Martin
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