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[Henize]
# Smail seems to compile pretty well, but I'm running into real problems with
# the sendmail.cf file.  We're a bsd (Sun 4.0.broken) site for a main server,
# and a lot of dec and sun and other machines around besides that.  It
# appears that perhaps the sendmail.cf file is not reading the /etc/hosts
# file at all.
# [...]
# The sendmail.cf from Sun seems to be messed up, at least according to the
# docs I read in one of the Sun manuals.  [...]

I recommend that you try to use the sendmail.cf file that comes with the smail
package rather than back-fitting Sun's config file to use smail for UUCP.  The
Sun config file was a nightmare last time I looked at it (in fairness, the one
in Ultrix is not easy to figure out either), but the one that comes with smail
is sufficient for most purposes, is relatively simple as sendmail config files
go, and makes a great base for later additions.

There are a few gotchas in the config file that smail builds for you, and the
questions it asks you in its build script aren't very clear, but once you get
something that barely works it is only an hour's work to get it to the 99%
point, which is as far as sendmail is ever going to get you anyway.

Moral: throw out the sendmail.cf that came from your CPU vendor and use the
       one that comes with smail.
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Paul Vixie
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