[Jim Diamond <DIAMOND at DREA-XX.ARPA>: sendmail]

[Jim Diamond]

   1) 29-Jul To: INFO-IRIS at DREA-X sendmail
   2) 17-Aug Andrew Myers         3000 sendmail setup

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From: Jim Diamond <DIAMOND at DREA-XX.ARPA>
Subject: sendmail
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We have a 3130 which is connected to a local area network (speaking TCP/IP).
One of the systems on the LAN is an arpanet gateway.  I wanted to get
sendmail set up to communicate with the rest of the world.

I tried reading the S.G. documentation.  It talked about a couple
of files in a directory which didn't even come with our system.
Thus that was little use.

I tried modifying the copy of the sendmail.cf file which came with
the system, according to the instructions contained therein.
That didn't help either.  Depending on how I set it up, I either
get "user unknown" or "host unknown" type messages.

Since we have ftp and telnet working fine, I assume that the problem
is most likely with my sendmail.cf file and not elsewhere.

Before I spend possibly outrageous amounts of time becoming a sendmail
expert, is there anyone out there who can either
1) enlighten me with a few sentences, or
2) send me a working sendmail.cf for a similar system.

Thanks.
		Jim Diamond
		diamond at drea-xx.arpa
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From: Andrew Myers <andru at sgi.com>
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Subject: 3000 sendmail setup
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Re: sendmail.cf problems on IRIS 3130

I had the same problem on a 3030 machine, and ended up copying a sendmail.cf
file from Stanford (polya.stanford.edu, I believe) and modifying it slightly.
The modifications involved changing the lines in the file which define the
domain and hostname, and also changing the flags which were passed to the
mailer programs to match those in the SGI sendmail.cf file. Unfortunately,
I don't have access to that machine or file anymore, but this is one way to
do it. About 4-5 lines in a "real" sendmail.cf need modification.


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