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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 1995 08:11:32 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        "John Booth" <JOHN@gab.unt.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS and mail. 
Message-ID:  <199507271511.IAA24678@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 95 08:41:12 CST." <1C19BC5276F@gab.unt.edu> 

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>I have configured a few FreeBSD boxes with NIS and it seems when
>sending mail it appends the domain to the address...for instance
>my host is ulantris.csci.unt.edu and I had it in the .cas.unt.edu nis
>domain.  Replied mail would get ulantris.csci.unt.edu.cas.unt.edu...
>is there a way to turn this off, or should the NIS domain and the DNS
>domain always be the same?.                               
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                    College of Arts & Sciences
>                                    Computing Services
>                                    John A. Booth, john@gab.unt.edu

This behavior is controlled by your mailer.  I remeber this being
a problem with elm.  When I worked at TCS, we hacked around this
problem, but I don't recall the patch.  Your NIS domain and DNS
domain can differ.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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