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- From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
- Subject: Re: SunOS sendmail and OR flag
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.135118.16759@eua.ericsson.se>
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- Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1992Nov4.223112.26521@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <2169@osiris.bosch.de>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:51:18 GMT
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- In article <2169@osiris.bosch.de>, grant@iva.k8.rt.bosch.de (Joseph C. Grant K8/IVA3 Tel. ++49-7121-35-2981) writes:
- |> In article 26521@newsgate.sps.mot.com, embry@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Mike Embry) writes:
- |> >Does anybody know what process sendmail is going through on a Sun when using the OR
- |> >flag? I'd like to have all mail from root in the form root@hostname. This is
- |> >the default if you are running sendmail in the background daemon mode and are
- |> >using sendmail.subsidiary.cf as your sendmail.cf. However, when the OR flag (relay
- |> >all mail to another host) is used sendmail seems to ignore the sendmail.cf file so
- |> >all mail from daemons, etc is simply addressed to root.
- |> >
- |> >Any ideas, anyone? Short of stop using the OR option?
- |> >
- |>
- |> As I understand it, the R option instucts SunOS sendmail to forward all mail
- |> to the machine where the /usr/spool/mail directory is mounted from once it has
- |> finished all other processing.
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- No, the R option instructs SunOS sendmail to forward all mail *without*
- doing (almost) any processing, i.e. the sendmail.cf (apart from the OR
- line) is ignored, as the original poster suspected.
-
- --Per Hedeland
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