sendmail.cf for RS/6000 ??

[Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO]

jeffe at sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091) writes:

>Hmmm, Paul, I'm sort of confused as to what you find so terrible about AIX3's
>sendmail?  It's real close to 5.61 with several enhancements that I think are
>not too shabby.  So please enlighten me as to what is in IDA's 5.65 that you
>like so much more, and we'll do our best to get it into the next release!

I'd really like to follow up via email but things look to be very screwed up
on your DNS server and mail machine:

% mx sandino.austin.ibm.com
sandino.austin.ibm.com  preference = 10,
	mail exchanger = cs.utexas.edu.austin.ibm.com

OK, let the contact for the austin.ibm.com zone know about it:

Date:    Wed, 24 Oct 90 14:37:40 CDT
To:      <paul at ux2.cso.uiuc.edu>
From:    MAILER-DAEMON at test.austin.ibm.com (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> HELO test.austin.ibm.com
<<< 553 test.austin.ibm.com Do not communicate with self
554 <root at austin.ibm.com>... Service unavailable: No such file or directory

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: by test.austin.ibm.com (AIX  2.1 2/4.03)
          id AA01576; Wed, 24 Oct 90 14:37:40 CDT
Received: by ux2.cso.uiuc.edu id AA13474
  (5.65+/IDA-1.3.5 for root at austin.ibm.com); Wed, 24 Oct 90 19:37:16 GMT
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 19:37:16 GMT
From: Paul Pomes <paul at ux2.cso.uiuc.edu>
Message-Id: <9010241937.AA13474 at ux2.cso.uiuc.edu>
To: root at austin.ibm.com
Subject: missing period in DNS records

Try printing the MX record for sandino.austin.ibm.com .

/pbp
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         Paul Pomes

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