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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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        ponds!uriah.heep.sax.de!joerg_wunsch
Subject: sendmail issues.
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J"org writes:
> 
> As Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> 
> >  For example, I believe our own sendmail.cf examples still
> > reference ucbvax.Berkely.edu as the UUCP_RELAY; which is where
> > a lot of this creeps in.
> 
> The UUCP_RELAY is a fairly bogus thing to have if you are connected
> through UUCP yourself, although it's kinda mandatory. :-]
> 
> Default sendmail.cf files are something that should never be used, i
> can't remember any machine where i've been able to use it.  It would
> probably be better to have a stripped down default file, as opposed to
> an all-whistles-and-bells file generated from freefall.mc.  (Who ever
> got the idea to ship this twisted setup as the default?)  The stripped
> down version should just do SMTP delivery and nothing else.  People
> are expected to install the `ssmailcf' distribution if they need a
> customized config file, about the same as they are expected to install
> the `ssys' distribution if they need a specific kernel.

  We should probably make this clear, somehow.  I just commented on
 the fact that the default one (which people do, apparently, use a
 great deal of; since I get a non-trivial amount of mail sprinkled
 with !ucbvax.Berkeley.edu)  should be improved.
> 
> Have a look at the sendmail-via-UUCP setup description in the FAQ.
> It's basically my configuration, and runs well here.  The mailertable
> is the most practical way for UUCP sites.  Nevertheless, i think in
> your case, it's DG-RTP's mailer that finally munges all addresses.

 That's the approach I use.  I had been hacking sendmail.cf a great
 deal to handle this in-line; but the mailertable was just toooo easy.

 Although, I still have to rebuild sendmail to handle the DNS problem.
 (The NO_CANONIFY trick that worked in the past no longer works.)

> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE

	- Dave Rivers -