Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:07:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail HELP! Message-ID: <199604151807.LAA12138@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <31724778.32E1@uswest.com> from "Paul T. Root" at "Apr 15, 96 07:56:24 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
According to Paul T. Root: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > [[ ... ]] > > > > > > > > All three of these look like name server problems. > > > How is you /etc/hosts.conf setup. And you /etc/resolv.conf? > > > > > > > > > > > In /etc/hosts.conf is > > > > hosts > > bind > > > > and in the resolv.conf files are my nameservers. > > > > gary > > Hmm, > That looks fine. > > The resolv.conf should look like: > > domain my.domain.here. > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > etc. > > or > > search my.domain.here domain.here other.domain.to.search up.to.six.domains > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > etc. > > Past that. you need to make sure your sendmail.cf knows what its hostname, > domainname and aliases are. Also, if you are masquarading as another host > (i.e. my machine pretends to be astro when sending out mail so mail goes > back to astro on a reply. > > Paul. > Thanks, Paul, and to everyone else who tried to help me puzzle this out. Mostly, profound thanks are due (and acknowledged) to Bob Beaulieu << bobb@netcom.com >>. Bob and I spend hours over the weekend, comparing files, set-ups, and possibilities. Turns out that the main part of the problem was that my sendmail.cf was missing four or five lines that told sendmail how to deliver local mail. I watched the trace as `sendmail -v' tried to connect to my nameserver, etc, etc. But the real light dawned when I diff'd my file against Bob's. I got my sendmail.cf from a friend/user of NetBSD who has his system connected directly to the net via ISDN. That may have been why the ``local part'' of the ruleset was missing in his version. That's only a guess. The short of it is that things work _mostly_. In time, when I've gathered enough courage, I'll set it up so that sendmail delivered either via IP or UUCP. .... A final observation here is that this:: the net, mailgroups or mailing lists; this small virtual slice of reality that we've all cobbled together is such a major win! What a plus this is... ---Several years ago when I was running a commercial Unix on my 286, I reported a bug fix by email and asked how soon they would be sending me back a fix. I got back a one-liner from somebody: ``You've got to be kidding.'' That summarizes the differences in philosophy and possibilities better than anything that I could write up. gary
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199604151807.LAA12138>