Re: DEFAULT_DOMAIN in 5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4.1

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From: Neil Rickert
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 22:41

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In article <1993Jan7.173427.21982@sics.se> uddeborg@sisu.se (Goeran Uddeborg) writes:
>I have a NeXT machine that does not automatically append its domain
>when gethostbyname() is used.

That means that sendmail is doing gethostbyname() with /etc/hosts lookups,
or NIS (or netinfo) lookups, instead of using the nameserver.  I recommend
you rebuild using the resolver library from the bind 4.8.3 release.

>                               So I add it explicitly by defining
>DEFAULT_DOMAIN.  This does change the definition of $j as I would
>expect, but it also defines the N option.  When I later run sendmail
>it complains that the N option is obsolete, and puts a copy of every
>mail in dead.letter.

We corrected this problem a long time ago.  Pick up a more recent copy
of Sendmail.mc from mp.cs.niu.edu:/pub/cf/Sendmail.mc

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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: DEFAULT_DOMAIN in 5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4.1
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