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Article #37QUESTION: How to get SENDMAIL to work correctly?
From: Darrin Robinson
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 20:34
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 20:34
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I'm having the hardest time getting SENDMAIL's sendmail.cf file configured
right and getting the mail headers straight. When mail is sent OUT of our
"domain" (geo.brown.edu), everything is fine. But, when mail is sent WITHIN
our domain with a hostname (Fully qualified or not), it get mangled with
something like robinson@PGGIPL.porter.geo.brown.edu. 'porter' being our
mailhost.
I know it's because I have a Dm in the sendmail.cf file (sc) that explcitly
states Dmporter.geo.brown.edu, but I did this because if I don't have it...
the From: address becomes something like robinson@geo.brown.edu to
external mail.
So the question is... Either how do I get the PGGIPL.porter.geo... problem
fixed, or how can I define a mailhost for geo.brown.edu so that external
hosts connecting to us can resolve geo.brown.edu to our mailhost which is
porter.geo.brown.edu.
Thanks!
Darrin
P.S. Another related question... would using sendmail.mx work... we have
MX records defined in our Name Service?
. Darrin E. Robinson (DER31) Hamnet N1LLV 146.700-, 146.880= MHz
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!news.Brown.EDU!news.Brown.EDU!news From: robinson@porter.geo.brown.edu (Darrin Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: QUESTION: How to get SENDMAIL to work correctly? Date: 2 Nov 1992 20:34:25 GMT Organization: Brown University, Providence RI 02912 Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1d43chINNq3k@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: stout.geo.brown.edu