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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: why does sendmail bring up my iijppp link? (2.2.2-RELEASE)
To: dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr)
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 06:54:48 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Donald Burr wrote:
> 
> I'm running a 2.2.2-RELEASE system.  Pretty stock, i.e no major changes
> made by me.  I'm running the standard sendmail.cf file that is distributed
> with it.  I've got iijppp (aka usermode PPP) set up and working correctly
> in demand dialing mode (ppp -auto).  I'm also running a nmaeserver on this
> machine.
> 
> Whenever I send mail using sendmail, EVEN IF THE MAIL IS SENT TO SOMEONE
> LOCAL TO MY MACHINE, it always brings up my ppp link.
> 
> I find this somewhat annoying, is there any way to fix it?  (tweaking
> sendmail.cf, etc.?)  If so I would gladly appreciate any help that you
> could offer.

	yea, sendmail is doing DNS lookups.  when it tries to connect
	to the DNS server, it brings up your PPP link (which must be
	set to auto).

	i have not tried this but add

	FEATURE(nocanonify)
	FEATURE(nodns)

	to you .mc file
	run m4 on it
	install it as /etc/sendamil.cf
	restart sendmail
jmb