Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 21:47:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers list) Subject: using mailertables with uucp Message-ID: <199607221947.VAA02221@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Hi there
This might be a bit inappropriate for -hackers, I'll take it
offline when I get responses:
I want to built:
Internet ----- <mailhub.tcja.nl> .......... <dontpanic.tcja.nl>
mailhub has Internet connectivity. The .... is an dialup (once every
few days) PPP link. dontpanic uses UUCP over TCP/IP to get the
mail from mailhub (dontpanic has an changing IP address from the ISP).
My idea was to the following to do incoming mail: have a mailertable
on mailhub that sez:
.tcja.nl uucp-dom:dontpanic
Then mailhub would uucp queue all mail, waiting for dontpanic to
dialin and grab things using uucp.
I built this idea (short of the Internet link to mailhub) at home.
But for some reason mailhub does not seem to understand that it should
do a uucp queue when it receives mail for .tcja.nl:
bash# mailq
Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
VAA00735 12 Mon Jul 22 21:26 wilko
(Deferred: Name server: blurk.tcja.nl: host name lookup
failu)
root@blurk.tcja.nl
I can understand that sendmail cannot deliver when DNS is not up, but
I expected it not to bother with DNS and just dump the received mail into
the uucp queue.
Below is the .mc file, some comments indicated with !!!
bash# cat mailhub.mc
include(`../m4/cf.m4')
VERSIONID(`mailhub_tcja.mc (wilko) 22/7/1996')dnl
OSTYPE(bsd4.4)
FEATURE(nodns)dnl
!!! tried this, but no difference !!!
# !!! ORDER is important !!!
MAILER(local)
MAILER(smtp)
MAILER(uucp)
FEATURE(always_add_domain)
# need a mailertable to get the mail to dontpanic
FEATURE(mailertable, `dbm -o /usr/local/etc/mailertable.db')
define(`confCOPY_ERRORS_TO', `Postmaster')dnl
# for new sendmail on FreeBSD 2.0
#define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,noreceipts')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn')dnl
# 14 day timeout before returning to sender
define(`confMESSAGE_TIMEOUT', `14d')dnl
Insights are appreciated. I did some rtfm on the O'Reilly Sendmail book
but mailertables are just very briefly described
Thanks
Wilko
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