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uk-sendmail 2.1 - redirecting local mail without aliases? and a few

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From: Khalid Sattar
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:14
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My configuration is uk-sendmail 2.1 with multihost option.  We have a
mailhost and number of client hosts.  These clients mount mailhost's
spool mail directory so that mail can be read.  When we send mail, the
use of aliases file ensures that mail for local users is always
redirected to mailhost which will do the delivery.  I like to do away
with aliases on the client machines but putting appropriate lines in
the sendmail.cf file.  If this is possible and not outrageouly bad
thing to do which rule set would be the appropriate place for such
hacks?

Incidently I found a couple of bugs in the sendmail-2.1 if tcp mailer
is used.  Apologies if this has already been reported.  The two bugs were

	a) In rules.m4 line 44, there is a missing $ before the @
	b) In mailer.m4 line 66 there is a trailing space, which
	   causes problems during smpt connection (the . does not get
           seen as an end of message and the connection eventually
           times out (using sendmail 5.65c+ida-1.4.4)
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			    Khalid Sattar
			   Systems Manager
     Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barington, Cambridge CB2 5RG
	    Email: khalid@harlequin.co.uk, khalid@harlqn.uucp
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Subject: uk-sendmail 2.1 - redirecting local mail without aliases? and a few
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