SUMMARY: Sendmail

From: Janet Ulrich (ju@compwr.com)
Date: Thu Oct 14 1993 - 13:31:02 CDT


Original post:

>I cannot get sendmail to attach the correct domain name from our subsidiary
>machines. From our mailhost we get "user@compwr.com" which is correct.
>From our subsidiary we get "user@sparcA.compwr" which is incorrect. How do
>I get the "compwr.com" tacked on instead of the "compwr"? Or better yet, how
>can I have it swap everything after the "@" for "compwr.com". We are not
>running NIS or DNS.
>
>I am not very "sendmail" literate, if you could point me to books that would
>be of more help that the SUN Manuals, I would appreciate that, too.
>
>Systems: Mailhost Subsidiary
>Machine: SS1 SS1/1+
>OS: 4.0.3 4.1.2

And the winner is (from Eckhard Rueggeberg <eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de>):

Change:
        Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h

To:
        Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuCX, S=21, R=21, A=TCP $h

on the subsidiary machines. This causes the local hostname not to be added
onto the address. This is not needed for local delivery, and not wanted for
external delivery.

Books recommended:

"TCP/IP Network Administration" by Craig Hunt from O'Reilly & Associates
    1-800-998-9938

"UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and
    Scott Seebass from Prentice Hall

Other reading:

Paul Pomes has written a little intro to hacking sendmail.cf's. It lives
    on ftp.uu.net:/mail/sendmail somewhere

Thanks to:

swanes@eq.gs.com (Steve Swaney)
Andrew Benson <drew@mtu.edu>
craig@cam.nist.gov (Craig Hunt)
Brian T. Shelden" <shelden@spoke.law.cornell.edu>
eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg)
....and any others who have yet to reply:)

Janet Ulrich
ju@compwr.com
System Adminstrator
CommPower, Inc.
Camarillo, CA



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