NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/mail/sendmail/2741

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!iscnvx!rapnet!news
From: [e-mail] (Mark Mabry)
Subject: help with sendmail on SGI Indigo
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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Organization: Lockheed Sanders Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:36:14 GMT
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I am installing one Silicon Graphics Indigo running IRIX 4.0.5F
(Sys5r3 with BSD extensions) here and see strange problems with the
mail connection.  First, mail can only be received + delivered to my
machine if the full domain name is used(mostly?!).  Second, I cannot
send mail out at all.  The machine name as listed in /etc/hosts is
"denali.sanders.lockheed.com denali", as suggested by SGI (strange, I
think).

Oh yeah, "sanders.lockheed.com" is the domainname I should use.

When I type "mail -v mabry@denali" from "rapnet" I get this
    mabry@denali... Connecting to denali.sanders.lockheed.com (tcp)...
    220 denali.sanders.lockheed.com Sendmail 920330.SGI/920502.SGI.AUTO ready at Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:12:11 -0500
    >>> HELO rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
    250 Hello rapnet.D, why do you call yourself rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com?
    >>> MAIL From:<[e-mail]>
    250 <[e-mail]>... Sender ok
    >>> RCPT To:<[e-mail]>
    250 <[e-mail]>... Recipient ok
    >>> DATA
    354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
    >>> .
    250 Ok
    >>> QUIT
    221 denali.sanders.lockheed.com closing connection
    mabry@denali... Sent


Now the SGI does not have a /etc/domainname like the Suns, but if I
run "/usr/etc/configmail list" I get

    Parameters:

    forwarder = "relay"
    rootdomain = "sanders.lockheed.com"
    directdomains = "sanders.lockheed.com"
    localdomain = "sanders.lockheed.com"
    pathalias = "/dev/null"
    relayname = "relay"
    deadhosts = "somewhere"

    Functions:

    domainrelay = "relay"
    mycanonname = "denali.sanders.lockheed.com"

And "relay" is an alias name to the mail gateway machine.

Now when I try to send out mail, I get 2 different types of output,
one with BSD mail and one with ATT mail.  First BSD mail (sending to
mabry@rapnet):
    mabry@rapnet... Connecting to rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com (ether)...
    mabry@rapnet... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server): Connection refused by rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
    Saving message in /usr/people/mabry/dead.letter
    /usr/people/mabry/dead.letter... Sent

Note, however, that to rapnet (or any other name server) my machine is
known authoritatively.

Finally using ATT mail a returned letter with following is issued:
    From MAILER-DAEMON  Thu Nov 12 09:27:18 1992
    Received: by denali.sanders.lockheed.com (920330.SGI/920502.SGI.AUTO)
            for mabry id AA03713; Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:27:18 -0500
    Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:27:18 -0500
    From: MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
    Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
    Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
    To: mabry

       ----- Transcript of session follows -----
    421 rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com.ether... Deferred: Connection refused by rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
    554 mabry@rapnet... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server): Connection refused by rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com

       ----- Unsent message follows -----
    Received: by denali.sanders.lockheed.com (920330.SGI/920502.SGI.AUTO)
            for [e-mail] id AA03553; Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:27:18 -0500
    Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:27:18 -0500
    From: mabry (Mark Mabry)
    Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
    Apparently-To: mabry@rapnet

Note the extension "ether" on the hostname, which seems to be part of
the problem.

If anyone can give me any help on this set of problems, it would be
greatly appreciated.


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Mark Mabry                                  Lockheed Sanders, Inc.
Digital Design Center of Technology         95 Canal St.
[e-mail]           Nashua, NH 03060
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