sendmail.cf problems on AIX 2.2.1 on RT

Jack F. Vogel jackv at turnkey.tcc.com
Tue Jul 31 02:37:11 AEST 1990


In article <871 at airgun.wg.waii.com> markw at airgun.wg.waii.com (Mark Whetzel) writes:
 
>I am having a funny problem with sendmail and our local network, and
>thought some of you sendmail guru's might be able to shed some 
>light on the problem.  Let me describe my setup.
 
[ description deleted...]

>If any inbound mail from uunet is for some other machine on my network
>(such as kepler)  mail directed in as  markw at kepler.wg.waii.com
>will get bounced!
 
It is difficult to be sure about the problem without seeing your sendmail.cf
file. First off how did you form the outbound To: address when you sent this
to uunet? It might be useful for you to look at the uucp command and data
files before uuxqt processes them. But...

>>bad system name: kepler.wg.waii.com
>>uux failed ( 11 )
>>554 kepler.wg.waii.com!markw... unknown mailer error 11
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I suspect that you should look at what sendmail will do with the address
above (using address test mode) since this is clearly resolving to the
uucp mailer, and obviously it shouldn't. Ruleset 3 should convert this
to look like "markw at kepler.wg.waii.com" and hand it off to Ruleset 6
which should detect that its in your local domain, at least this is the
way my cf rule flow works. Anyway, if you still are stuck send me some
email at my locus address including your cf file and I will see what I
can do. Good luck!

Disclaimer: I get paid to solve problems, not to speak for LCC or IBM.

-- 
Jack F. Vogel			jackv at locus.com
AIX370 Technical Support	       - or -
Locus Computing Corp.		jackv at turnkey.TCC.COM



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