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Re: sendmail problem

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From: Jeff Schluep
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:46
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In article <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joseph  
Chin) writes:
> I've just noticed that since I upgraded to 3.0, I can no longer send email  
> to accounts within my domain (prodigy.bc.ca). Is there a bug in the 3.0  
> sendmail.cf file? The NeXT is a mail client on the network, and the mail  
> host is a Sun Sparc server. Everything worked fine before the 3.0 upgrade.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks.
> 
> Joe
> 

	I had a similar problem.  Mail to host faxgate.acs.ohio-state.edu would  
not work correctly for me (my domain is acs.ohio-state.edu).

	When I investigated the problem I discovered that all mail sent to a  
host inside my domain was considered "local".  What this means is that next's  
sendmail is configured to send local mail without the domain.  Thus mail to  
"joe@faxgate.acs.ohio-state.edu" would be sent as "joe@faxgate".  The host that  
handles mail for faxgate wanted to see the whole domain and so it bounced the  
message.

	I reconfigured the sendmail.mailhost.cf (this was the sendmail config  
that I was using) to send mail to the next's in my netinfo config as "local"  
and everything else as "non-local".  This solved my problem.

	I'm not sure if my problem was the same as yours but it sounds like it.  

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Jeff Schluep                    Email: JEFF+@osu.edu
The Ohio State University
1971 Neil Avenue                Phone: (614) 292-4843
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From: jeffs@next-demo.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Schluep)
Subject: Re: sendmail problem
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