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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: Sendmail on SCO Unix
- Message-ID: <Bsy0Fp.4CK@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:14:12 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.035026.28767@honte.uleth.ca> <1992Aug11.123309.3396@mks.com>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <1992Aug11.123309.3396@mks.com> davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander) writes:
- >Your problem is that the sendmail that SCO ships is very
- >vanilla, and about four years old. If you _really_ like
- >sendmail, and want to talk to the nameserver, then you are
- >going to have to buy an SCO DevSys, the TCP/IP DevSys, and find
- >sendmail sources on the net somewhere (try uunet).
-
- Eh? I have no experience with SCO sendmail before TCP/IP v1.2.0, but
- I can testify to the sendmail in that version...It is stock Berkeley
- sendmail v5.65 which, I believe, is the most recent version. The DNS
- support extends to using the DNS resolver services for nametoaddr
- mapping, but it does not handle MX records. No, it's not IDA
- sendmail, but it does mostly work.
-
- One caution: The sendmail.cf file that SCO ships with TCP/IP v1.2.0
- (as well as the sendmail.cf generated by running "mkdev cf") has an
- error in the "local" mailer definition. The "m" flag (mailer handles
- specification of multiple recipient addresses on a single invokation)
- is specified for the local mailer, but the program used to do local
- mail delivery (/usr/bin/lmail) only handles one recipient address at a
- time. So, if you do not take out the "m" flag, mail to more than one
- recipient will be only be delivered to the (alphabetically) first
- recipient on the list. If you use "mkdev cf", either change the
- script, or remember to change your sendmail.cf file again if you ever
- regenerate it. Better yet, don't use "mkdev cf".
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't make backups. Real men never
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | accidentally delete files that they're going
- | to need later.
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