Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 07:16:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers, ponds!uriah.heep.sax.de!joerg_wunsch Subject: sendmail issues. Message-ID: <199704061116.HAA21062@lakes.water.net>
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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 -
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