HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: uucpmap@rutgers.rutgers.edu (UUCP Mapping Project)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.maps
Subject: UUCP map for u.arg.sa.1
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:11:49 GMT
Expires: 22 Feb 93 11:11:49 GMT
Supersedes: <Dec.8.07.48.30.1992.2042@rutgers.rutgers.edu>

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# UUCP Maps for Salta - Thu Dec 27 11:44:34 ARG 1990

#N	ciunsa
#S	IBM PC; PC-DOS 3.3
#O	Consejo de Investigacion - Universidad Nacional de Salta
#C	Edgar Estrada
#E	ciunsa!postmaster
#T	+54 87 25 0170
#P	Buenos Aires 177; (4400) Salta - Provincia de Salta, ARGENTINA
#L	24 46 S / 65 21 W city
#W	ciunsa!postmaster (Edgar Estrada); Wed Dic 19 09:00 ARG 1990
#
ciunsa = ciunsa.edu.ar
ciunsa	secyt(DAILY)

#N	inbemi
#S	IBM PC; PC-DOS 3.3
#O	Instituto de Beneficios de Minerales - (CONICET - UNSa)
#C	Ing. Jorge W. Velasco
#E	inbemi!postmaster
#T	+54 87 25 0176
#P	Buenos Aires 177; (4400) Salta - Provincia de Salta, Rep. Argentina
#L	24 46 S / 65 21 W city
#R
#U
#W	inbemi!postmaster (Ing. Jorge Velasco); Tue Apr 23 13:00 ARG 1991
inbemi = inbemi.edu.ar
inbemi	secyt(DAILY)

#N	invsal
#S	IBM PC; PC-DOS 3.3
#O	Consejo de Investigacion - Universidad Nacional de Salta
#C	Edgar Estrada
#E	invsal!postmaster
#T	+54 87 25 0170
#P	Buenos Aires 177; (4400) Salta - Provincia de Salta, Rep. Argentina
#L	24 46 S / 65 21 W city
#W	invsal!postmaster (Edgar Estrada); Wed Dic 19 09:00 ARG 1990
#
invsal	= invsal.edu.ar
invsal	atina(WEEKLY)

#N	prova
#S	IBM Ps ; MS-DOS v3.3
#O	Instituto de Planeamiento Economico Social - Salta.
#C	Ricardo  Luis Igarzabal
#E	prova!postmaster
#T	+54 87 31 1544
#P	Guemes 562  - Provincia de Salta.
#L	
#R	
#U	
#W	secyt!ceci(Cecilia M. Sarmiento) ; Wed May 29 12:24:32 ARG 1991
prova = prova.gov.ar
prova secyt(DAILY)

#N	unsa
#S	IBM PC; PC-DOS 3.3
#O	Universidad Nacional de Salta - Republica Argentina
#C	Edgar Estrada
#E	unsa!postmaster
#T	+54 87 25 0170
#P	Buenos Aires 177; (4400) Salta - Provincia de Salta, Rep. Argentina
#L	24 46 S / 65 21 W city
#W	unsa!postmaster (Edgar Estrada); Wed Dic 19 09:00 ARG 1990
unsa	= unsa.edu.ar
unsa    dcfcen(DAILY)

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From: uucpmap@rutgers.rutgers.edu (UUCP Mapping Project)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.maps
Subject: UUCP map for u.arg.1
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:07:31 GMT
Expires: 22 Feb 93 11:07:30 GMT
Supersedes: <Dec.8.07.45.36.1992.1469@rutgers.rutgers.edu>

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# u.arg.1 - Tue Jul 10 15:59:40 GMT-3:00 1990
#
#                        UUCP MAPS FOR ARGENTINA
#
#	UUCP maps files for Argentina sites are maintained by regions
#	as follows:
#
#		  Region	   File		Last Update
#
#		Buenos Aires	 u.arg.ba.1	  21May91
#		Catamarca	 u.arg.ct.1       05Apr91
#		Chaco		 u.arg.cc.1	  17May91
#		Chubut		 u.arg.ch.1       17May91
#		Cordoba		 u.arg.cb.1       21May91
#		Corrientes	 u.arg.cn.1       07May91
#		Entre Rios	 u.arg.er.1	  05Apr91
#		Formosa		 u.arg.fm.1	  16May91
#		Jujuy		 u.arg.jy.1	( No sites yet )
#		La Pampa	 u.arg.lp.1	( No sites yet )
#		La Rioja	 u.arg.lr.1	  05Apr91
#		Mendoza		 u.arg.mz.1       21May91
#		Misiones	 u.arg.mn.1	  21May91
#		Neuquen	 	 u.arg.nq.1	  05Apr91
#		Rio Negro	 u.arg.rn.1       09May91
#		Salta		 u.arg.sa.1	  13May91
#		San Juan	 u.arg.sj.1       20May91
#		San Luis	 u.arg.sl.1       05Apr91
#		Santa Cruz	 u.arg.sc.1	( No sites yet )
#		Santa Fe	 u.arg.sf.1       17May91
#		Sant.del Estero	 u.arg.se.1	  05Apr91
#		Tierra del Fuego u.arg.tf.1	  21May91
#		Tucuman		 u.arg.tm.1       21May91
#
#
#	For more information about uucp sites in Argentina please
#	contact:
#		netinfo@atina.ar or postmaster@atina.ar
#
#	   UNDP Project ARG-86-026
#	   Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto
#	   Reconquista 1088 1er. Piso - Informatica
#	   Capital Federal, Buenos Aires.
#	   Argentina.
#
#	   Phone: +541-313-8082             Fax: +541-814-4824
#	   Attn.: Jorge M. Amodio or Daniel Santos y Guillen
#
# End of u.arg.1
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From: uucpmap@rutgers.rutgers.edu (UUCP Mapping Project)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.maps
Subject: UUCP map for u.can.ab.2
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:19:01 GMT
Expires: 22 Feb 93 11:19:01 GMT
Supersedes: <Dec.8.07.49.55.1992.2414@rutgers.rutgers.edu>

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file {u.can.ab.2}
#	u.can.ab.2 : last updated Sun Mar  8 13:20:36 EST 1992
#
# Empty file.  A reorganization of the u.can.* files resulted in
# the number of u.can.ab files decreasing from 2 to 1.
#
# All map entries that were automatically generated from CA domain
# registration forms are now in u.can.?. - utai!path
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From: uucpmap@rutgers.rutgers.edu (UUCP Mapping Project)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.maps
Subject: UUCP map for u.nld.100
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:24:44 GMT
Expires: 22 Feb 93 11:24:43 GMT
Supersedes: <Dec.8.07.58.54.1992.4501@rutgers.rutgers.edu>

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file {u.nld.100} # of 0,1,2,3,4,100; changes to: uucpmap@nluug.nl
# Non EUnet nodes residing in the Netherlands
# #W lines show 2 dates: date of introduction and date of last change.
# Last change:  Mon Jul 29 13:48:05 METDST 1991

#N     comsat
#S     Amstrad PPC-640; Waffle v1.64; MS/DOS
#O     Satellite Telecom, Geldrop Holland
#C     Marcel Kat
#E     comsat!marcel
#T     +31 40 853798
#P     Nieuwendijk 17a, 5664 HA, Geldrop, The Netherlands
#L     5 28 E / 51 26 N
#R     Public system for telecom and satellite related questions
#U
#W     martijn@nluug.nl 910729, martijn@nluug.nl 910729
#

#N	caseur
#S	HP 9000/750 ; HPUX 8.07
#O	Cascade N.V.
#C	Jan van den Berg
#E	cascorp!postmaster
#T	+31 36 5392278
#P	P.O. Box 50086 1305 AB Almere, The Netherlands
#L	52 20 10 N / 5 13 22 E
#W	cascorp!slarsen 920918, martijn@nluug.nl 920930
#
caseur  cascorp(DAILY)

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From: gaissmai@xwini.rz.uni-ulm.de (Karl Gaissmaier)
Subject: SUMMARY: i refuse to talk to myself
Keywords: MX, DNS
Organization: Universitaet Ulm
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:06:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.084352.29295@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> gaissmai@xwini.rz.uni-ulm.de 
(Karl Gaissmaier) writes:

>MikroVax-3100
>ULTRIX V4.2 (Rev. 85)
>Sendmail-5.57
>
>This machine (netway.rz.uni-ulm.de) is our domain name server and MX-Server 
>for various other machines. netway is also our backup MailExchanger for 
>mathematik.uni-ulm.de, see below:

>  mathematik.uni-ulm.de   preference = 0, mail exchanger = laborix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de
>  mathematik.uni-ulm.de   preference = 5, mail exchanger = titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de
>  mathematik.uni-ulm.de   preference = 100, mail exchanger = netway.rz.uni-ulm.de
>  mathematik.uni-ulm.de   preference = 200, mail exchanger = noc.belwue.de

>in the case, that both MX-Servers laborix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de and
>titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de are down at the same time, all mails
>for mathematik.uni-ulm.de are sent to netway.rz.uni-ulm.de.
>
>The netway now doesn't queue the mails until the more precedenced
>MX_Servers laborix or titania are online, netway tries to connect
>with itself and in order to prevent loops, netway can only say:
>	i refuse to talk to myself
=========================================================================================

the solution is:

this sendmail version does not set the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) in the $w Makro, but
the comparison with the MX-RR is made with the $w Makro and therefore netway can not 
recognize itself because netway and netway.rz.uni-ulm.de are different.

make the following:

set the $w Makro to the FQDN explizit: Dwnetway.rz.uni-ulm.de
set the $A Makro to the unqualified domain name: DAnetway
replace all occurences of $w with $A in the .cf file

=========================================================================================

many thanks to all replies on the net. i was ill after my question and my news-grabber
didn't save the headers, and therefore i can't say my thanks to the man who helped me
with the right hint, but it was the following article number and text [no trailers :-(]:

>Article: 3925 of comp.mail.sendmail

>You need to make sure that $w is defined to be 'netway.rz.uni-ulm.de'

>If sendmail does not automatically define it this way try adding a
>line

>	Dwnetway.rz.uni-ulm.de

>to your configuration.  You may then have to make some other changes
>to avoid double domains.

>[Explanation:  sendmail check an MX record against $w.  If they are equal
>it discards this MX record and any record of worse preference.  Thus if
>the two main hosts are down it should now queue the mail rather than
>send to itself].

many thanks explicit to this author :-(thanks)

btw is there an archiver of the group comp.mail.sendmail??

gaissmai@rz.uni-ulm.de
From: matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Is it possible to alias a hostname?
Date: 5 Jan 93 01:27:59 GMT
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Organization: Yale University--Genetics

Why not just add a suitable "Reply-To:" line to the
header?  Most well-behaved mailers know about this.

Following is from the MAIL_BSD(1) manual page:
>  replyto     If defined, gives the address which should be entered 
>              into the Reply-To: header field for all outgoing mail.


Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator; the lab
 net pretends to work!"

matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu
From: hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM (Hakan Sjogren)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail.IDA alias rebuild problem
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:09:01 GMT
Organization: Computervision Sweden

When the NIS Makefile rebuilds is alias database sometimes
to following messages occur.
Until a manual sendmail -bi is done all mailtraffic is down.

Anybody that can offer an explanation/fix?

Jan  6 13:49:16 primse1 sendmail[17242]: rebuilding alias database
Jan  6 13:49:16 primse1 sendmail[17242]: alias database autorebuilt by root
Jan  6 13:49:16 primse1 sendmail[17242]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: /etc/aliases: line 1: DBM store of servicemail-bugs (size 24) failed: Not owner
.
.
and so on for every line in /etc/aliases

MACHINE is Sun SParc
OS is SunOS4.1.1

-hs


-- 
Hekan Sjvgren					Tel: +46 8 751 0000
hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM				Box 18, S-164 93 Kista Sweden
hakan@cv.se					Fax: +46 8 751 3180
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy)
Subject: Re: Help needed in sending mail
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Organization: Yale University--Genetics
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:17:23 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.185752.23039@nbc1.ge.com>, saz@nbc1.ge.com (Steve
Zahner) wrote:
[text cut]

> For some reason, I can only send mail if I log in 
> as user uucp, otherwise, I get the error
> 

I cannot help you with your email problem.  However, if
your system allows human logins to its uucp account then
you have a *major* security hole--uucp has a high level
of privileges so nogoodniks love it.  The /etc/passwd
entry for your uucp account should have an asterisk in
the password field so that interactive logins are not
possible.

I suspect that your system has privileges set so that
ordinary users are denied email access; uucp may be able
to override such limitations.  Check with your system administrator.

Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator; the lab
 net pretends to work!"

matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From:  kika@tern.msk.su (Cyril L. Pertsev)
Subject: What is the POP? HELP please!
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:29:15 GMT
Reply-To: kika@tern.msk.su
Organization: unknown


	Hi, netters!

I've saw recently a discussion about the problems with Win/QVT package, 
which sends mail to UNIX host via POP protocol. I'm working in a 
software firm here in Russia on the same project ( mailing software
under DOS/Windows ). But i never heard of POP. What is it? Is there
some docs - RFCs - IENs, etc? Is POP based on TCP? PLEASE answer
'cause it's very interesting for me and may be very helpful.

	Thanks in advance, Cyril Pertsev aka kika@tern.msk.su
From: ellozy@farber.dfci.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Does alias lookup iterate?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:03:53 GMT
Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: farber.harvard.edu
Keywords: sendmail alias
Originator: ellozy@farber


In article <1huuhfINNjfj@network.ucsd.edu>, brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
  > Yes, they iterate, but your problem is that on the second and successive
  > iterations they are case-sensitive.  The patch is simple; in the alias
  > lookup subroutine, use newstring to make a copy of the alias being
  > searched for and downcase it before the search.  As far as I can see,
  > that bug is present in all versions of vanilla sendmail through 5.67.
  > 
  > I seem to recall that it's done correctly in IDA-sendmail.
  > 	- Brian

Talk of luck!  I read this yesterday after having struggled with that problem for a couple of hours.  Thanks Brian.

The following patch is taken from IDA, I am not sure why they try null-terminated strings but decided to include that part.  This is a context diff from a previously unmodiffied alias.c from berkeley 5.65, as usual your mileage may differ!

*** /tmp/,RCSt1a09164	Fri Jan  8 10:58:05 1993
--- alias.c	Fri Jan  8 10:55:32 1993
***************
*** 134,144 ****
--- 134,166 ----
  {
  # ifdef DBM
  	DATUM rhs, lhs;
+ 	char *lowname = newstr(name);
  
  	/* create a key for fetch */
+ 	(void) makelower(lowname);
  	lhs.dptr = name;
  	lhs.dsize = strlen(name) + 1;
  	rhs = fetch(lhs);
+ 	if (rhs.dptr == (char *)NULL)
+ 	{
+ 		/* try null-terminated version */
+ 		lhs.dsize += 1;
+ 		rhs = fetch(lhs);
+ 		lhs.dsize -= 1;
+ 		if (rhs.dptr == (char *)NULL)
+ 		{
+ 			/* try lower-case version */
+ 			lhs.dptr = lowname;
+ 			rhs = fetch(lhs);
+ 			if (rhs.dptr == (char *)NULL)
+ 			{
+ 				/* try null-terminated lower-case version */
+ 				lhs.dsize += 1;
+ 				rhs = fetch(lhs);
+ 			}
+ 		}
+ 	}
+ 	free(lowname);
  	return (rhs.dptr);
  # else DBM
  	register STAB *s;
From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Where to post for 'smail' questions
Date: 12 Jan 1993 17:07:05 GMT
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ope001.iao.ford.com

In article <1371@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim
Jagielski) writes:

:I've been looking for a newsgroup that I can read about and maybe ask some
:questions concerning 'smail' but have had little luck. Since 'smail' is
:usually used as a replacement for 'sendmail' I'd thought I'd ask here...
:
:What newsgroup concerns itself with 'smail'... Anybody know?

I don't believe there is such a newsgroup, though there is the smail
mailing list, smail3-users@cs.athabascau.ca.  And of course, there's
comp.mail.misc, which concerns itself with most everything mail-ish.

						...Mike
-- 
 Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
 Dearborn, MI  48121           |  Fax:       +1 (313) 323-6277
From: markr@seqp4.sequoia.com (Mark Roddy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: BITNET
Summary: xxxxxx@yyyyyyy.BITNET
Keywords: how to ignorant FAQ
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:37:30 GMT
Organization: Sequoia Systems Inc., Marlboro, Mass.

Standard disclaimer:
	A friend even more ignorant than I...
End disclaimer.

is trying to email to his father in what used to be Czech. His mailer
says: "Return-Path: <@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.@:xxxxxx@yyyyyyy.BITNET>"
on mail from his dear old dad.

But neither his mailer nor mine can reach any variation that the two
of us have come up with.

A clue would be appreciated.

I've tried going straight at xxxxxx@yyyyyyyy.BITNET but of course
I don't have a gateway to BITNET.

Thanks in advance.


-- 
-Mark Roddy
Sequoia Systems, Inc.          (508) 480-0800 x1284
markr@seqp4.sequoia.com        m2c!seqp4!markr
From: elsn4000@bronto.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Frank Elsner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Aliases for local hosts in sendmail.cf
Date: 12 Jan 1993 10:18:27 GMT
Organization: TUBerlin/ZRZ
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bronto.zrz.tu-berlin.de

There is a question on handling aliases for host names in "sendmail.cf"
for handling local mail.

Most of the "sendmail.cf"s I've seen and in use do it this way:

          S6
          R$*<@$=w>$*		$:$1<@$w.$D>$3
          R$*<@$=w.$D>$*	$:$1<@$w.$D>$3
          R$*<@$=U.UUCP>$*	$:$1<@$w.$D>$3
            ..
            ..
            ..
          S0
            ..
            ..
            ..
          R$+<@$w>$*		#local$:$1
          R$+<@$w.$D>$*		#local$:$1
            ..
            ..
            ..

This leads to a rewrite of the hostname, hiding the original name.


Why not doing it the following way, which keeps the original ?

          S6
            ..
            ..
            ..
          S0
            ..
            ..
            ..
          R$+<@$w>$*		#local$:$1
          R$+<@$w.$D>$*		#local$:$1
          R$+<@$=w>$*		#local$:$1
          R$+<@$=w.$D>$*	#local$:$1
            ..
            ..
            ..

Is there a significant reason for doing it the first way ?

Frank Elsner (TUBerlin Postmaster)
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 08:12:56 MST
From: <ICSRXP@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject:    Return-path

I'm trying to set the Return-Path: header to "userid@thehub.asu.edu".  I've
correctly configured the From: and Resent-From: headers this way.  The entry
I have in sendmail.cf is:

H?P?Return-Path: <$g.$m>   -  which produces "userid@thehub"

It seems like no matter what is used with the "P" flag, the above entry is put
in the Return-Path: field (e.g. No domain).  When I remove the ?P? from above  ,
it appears correctly, but in addition to the incorrect one (two Return-path:
headers).  In addition, I am using $g.$j with the From: header, but If I use
that with the Return-path header: (w/o P flag) I get thehub.thehub.asu.edu.

This system is running SunOS 4.1.3.  Thanks in advance for any help!
From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: FTP site for sendmail with IDA?
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:01:13
Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com
In-reply-to: tony@ajfcal.uucp's message of Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:53:12 GMT

> Could someone please identify an FTP site for sendmail with IDA?

you can get lennart's last official IDA release...

	gatekeeper.dec.com:~ftp/pub/mail/ta/sendmail/ida-1.2.8.tar.Z

...which is just diffs and they apply to a very ancient version of sendmail.

you can get UIUC's latest "IDA" release...

	uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/sendmail-5.65c+IDA-1.4.4.1.tar.Z

...which is based on a much more recent version of sendmail.

you can get the latest "King James" release...

	gatekeeper.dec.com:~ftp/pub/mail/ta/sendmail/kjs.tar.Z

...which will someday be merged with the UIUC code and has at least all of
lennart's original IDA stuff.

or, you can get eric's latest (sendmail 6.8)...

	FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU:~ftp/ucb/sendmail/sendmail.6.8.tar.Z

...which has several of the more interesting IDA features in it.

--
Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab	
Palo Alto, California, USA         	"Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
<vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie		they're the same thing, anyway.  Find
<paul@vix.com>     vixie!paul		your own path, and stay on it."  -me
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: mosedale@yeahbut.stanford.edu (Dan Mosedale)
Subject: Default UUCP name & possible sendmail bugs
Organization: Stanford Yeast Genome Project
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 22:43:05 GMT

First off, thanks to Neil, Paul, Eric & everyone else involved with
Sendmail and/or Sendmail+IDA for a nice package.

Now, a feature question: I'd like to use a single client.m4/client.cf
for many machines.  Is there a way to set UUCPNAME to default to the
current machine name ($w, if I recall correctly from my pre-IDA days)?


Now for the bugs... 

First off, the Ultrix 4.2a include files already have a function
prototype for fdopen(), so the ones in def.h need to be somehow
ifdef'ed out.

The second bug ccurs on both the DECs and the Suns.  I'm running
Sendmail 5.65c + IDA 1.4.4.1, on both DECstations and SPARCs.  I've
compiled it with GCC 2.3.3, invoked as

    gcc -ansi -O2 -fpcc-struct-return

I have my aliases set up as follows:

    /etc/aliases is on the root partition, and is symlink to
    /usr/local/init/aliases.  /usr/local/init is an NFS partition
    which I'd like to mount read-only.

The problem is this: when Sendmail (invoked with -bi or as newaliases)
goes to build the aliases.{dir,pag} databases, it refuses to build
them if /usr/local/init is mounted read-only (even though the database
files should be written to /etc, in this instance).

I assume what is going on is that sendmail first stat()'s
/etc/aliases, and then finds the parent-dir of the stat'ed directory
and does a writability check on that, rather than simply checking the
writability of the directory where aliases ostensibly lives (i.e
/etc).

Thanks,
Dan Mosedale
mosedale@genome.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: fblau@well.sf.ca.us (Frank Blau)
Subject: sendmail: NeXT->MS Mail problem!
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:59:57 GMT


When: Sending mail from a NeXT (v3.0) to MA Mail (v 3.1) through a
StarNine SMTP gateway.

What:  I have 2 accounts, one on the NeXT, and one on the Mac. The Mac
account is frank_blau@caresys.phc.com. The NeXT account is
frank_blau@phc.com.

1. Mail that is manually addressed from the NeXT Mailer to

        frank_blau@caresys.phc.com

gets delivered successfully to the Mac, with a return address of

        fblau@is103 (my node name)

I can auto reply with no problem to this message.

2. Mail that is addressed from the NeXT Mailer to

        frank_blau

selected from the Users list on the NeXT gets delivered to my Mac with a
return address of

        fblau@

or sometimes

        fblau@@

which I cannot auto-reply to.


Does anyone have any ideas where to get to the root of this?
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