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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: OR (remote mode)?
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:52:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.040340.22378@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) writes:

>What is the meaning of "OR" in sendmail.cf?

  This has a SunOS meaning in Sun versions of sendmail.cf .  It has no
meaning in standard BSD versions.

  Roughly speaking, it means that all mail should be directly forwarded
to the host from which the disk partition containing /var/spool/mail
is mounted.  The forwarding is usually done with no local processing,
and none of the usual building of local queue files.

  Many people consider 'OR' a bad idea, and comment out that line.

Xref: sparky comp.mail.sendmail:1952 comp.mail.misc:2485
From: graham@netwrx1.NW1.COM (James M. Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Intelligent mail distribution on IBM AIX
Keywords: sendmail, smail, smtp aix
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:24:20 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Open Networks, Inc., Reston, VA

I have currently installed some IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.2. I am having
difficulty configuring the sendmail program for batch mail distribution.
By this I mean, have sendmail queue messages, start a queue run, make a
connection to the destination host, deliver all mail to users on that
host, break the connection, then process the next batch for the next host.

Is this possible using sendmail? If so, does anyone know what the parameters
are for the Mlan/Mtcp mailer?

Does anyone know of a commercially-available alternative to sendmail on AIX
which provides this capability? I am also looking for an X user interface
tool for mail system administration/queue management. Hopefully it would
be one and the same product.

Does the public available Smail program run on AIX and if so does it support
the batch SMTP mail delivery I describe above?

Thanks,
Jim Graham

uunet!netwrx1!graham

Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: oneill@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill)
Subject: Sendmail 5.65c+IDA - preventing duplicate messages
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:42:30 GMT

Is there an option to prevent a user who is in both an alias in the Cc:
field, and in the To: field, from getting the message twice???

=======================================================================
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University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Internet: oneill@ulowell.edu		Moderator, comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: format of the From: line
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:46:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.034141.1097@cs.umn.edu> iacovou@cs.umn.edu (Danny Iacovou) writes:
>  I have a client that forwards all mail off to a host in order to 
>  deliver the mail. The name of the client is "joe.cs.umn.edu", and
>  the name of the host is "smoe.cs.umn.edu". I want mail to appear as
>  though it originated from "cs.umn.edu". My client it running SunOS
>  sendmail 4.1, and my host is running 5.65c+IDA

  This can be taken care of on the host with the IDA config package.  The
HIDDENNET or HIDDENDOMAIN or DOMAINTABLE options provide several ways
of accomplishing this address rewrite.

>  Now, my problem. My client does not write the From: line in the form of:
>
>	From: iacovou@cs.umn.edu (Danny Iacovou)
>
>  Instead, it writes it in the form of:
>
>	From: iacovou@cs.umn.edu

  Does your mailserver host have the same users?  If so, you should be able
to have the name added by the server instead of the client.  For this,
change your "From:" line definition to:

Dq$?x$!x $.<$f>

Most likely this will have the effect you desire.
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Date: 18 Jul 92 00:14 MDT
Subject: Re: How to make mail id's case-insensit
Nf-ID: #R:1992Jul17.171315.124082@evolving:304459446:1992Jul17.201448.29793@mp.cs.niu:1430454844:001:566
Nf-From: mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert    Jul 18 00:14:00 1992


In article <1992Jul17.171315.124082@evolving.com> ref@evolving.com (Randy Fay) writes:
>
>How do you make mail id's case-insensitive?

  Look at the local mailer definition (the line beginning 'Mlocal' in
sendmail.cf).  Check the "F=" string of flags.  There is probably
a 'u' flag specified.  Remove the 'u' flag.

  If you have a file 'sendmail.fc' in the same directory as 'sendmail.cf'
you will need to rebuild the freeze file, with /usr/lib/sendmail -bz .
You then must kill and restart your daemon before this take effect for
mail coming in over the network.


Xref: sparky comp.mail.sendmail:1967 comp.mail.uucp:1584
From: gdonl@sunrise.ssi1.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: BSMTP instead of rmail
Date: 31 Jul 92 05:32:24 GMT
Organization: Silicon Systems, Nevada City CA

In article <1992Jul30.130353.24153@Veritas.COM> tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
>In article <14uemnINN2sg@smurf.smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>>You can do about 10..20% better by using freze instead of compress.
>>The receiver for this would then be rfsmtp.
>
>So, where does one get freze?  It doesn't appear to be on uunet.

Well, it's actually "freeze".  Look in comp.sources.misc, volume 25.
-- 
Don "Truck" Lewis              Phone: +1 916 478-8284   Silicon Systems
Internet: gdonl@ssi1.com       FAX:   +1 916 478-8290   138 New Mohawk Road
UUCP: {uunet,tektronix!gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com}!ssigv!gdonl  Nevada City, CA  95959
Xref: sparky comp.mail.sendmail:1947 comp.mail.uucp:1568
From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: BSMTP instead of rmail
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:00:39 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1

In comp.mail.uucp, article <1992Jul18.114636.169@bertha.cc.und.ac.za>,
  barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan P Barrett) writes:
< 
< I encourage everybody to use bsmtp-over-uucp instead of rmail-over-uucp.
< smail3's way of doing this is seems to be the de facto standard:  A
< batch-SMTP job is sent via a command like
< 
< 	uux - remotesite!rsmtp
< 
< and a compressed BSMTP job is sent via
< 
< 	uux - remotesite!rcsmtp
< 
You can do about 10..20% better by using freze instead of compress.
The receiver for this would then be rfsmtp.

One problem to watch out for is the first line of the data file: it should
say "HELO host.do.main". Unfortunately, at least some smail3 vesrions seem
to send "HELO <host.do.main>", which is wrong and confuses the receiving
side. 

-- 
Matthias Urlichs  --  urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de   /(o\
Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- Germany  --  +49-721-9612521     \o)/
From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: 565c+IDA: how to be authoritative for a domain w/o DNS?
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:15:46 GMT
Organization: Boycott AT&T!

I'm running a UUCP only system that is the primary mail server for
the ampr.ab.ca domain. I have a number of UUCP connected machines
(and a couple on the ethernet) that reside under that domain who
receive internet mail via a wildcard MX pointing to my UUCP smarthost
(alberta). ampr.ab.ca does not (and cannot, due to C compiler braindamage)
run DNS. I maintain a partial pathalias database (u.can.* only), and
punt anything I don't know a route to at alberta (which is on the Internet).

This works well with one exception: I cannot seem to convince sendmail
to consider itself authoritative for the ampr.ab.ca domain. Any time I
receive mail for bogus.ampr.ab.ca where bogus is nonexistent, sendmail
punts the mail to alberta, which finds the wildcard MX and quite cheerfully
forwards the message right back to me.

Is there any way to configure sendmail to bounce these messages instead?
If I could get DNS working this wouldn't be a problem, but the documentation
is not very clear how to do this on a UUCP only machine. Any and all help
with this would be appreciated.

--lyndon
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.admin,misc.books.technical
From: pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory)
Subject: sendmail classes/books
Organization: World Vision U.S.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 21:09:51 GMT

Hi - I need to learn sendmail - not just understand what it does, but I 
need to become an expert, soon.

I'd appreciate any recommendations on good classes and books on sendmail.

Thanks...
-- 

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UNIX SA            |  Bangpath: ames!elroy!wvus!pete
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From: embry@iam.unibe.ch (Mike Embry)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: OR (remote mode)?
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:54:21 GMT
Reply-To: embry@iam.unibe.ch
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Berne, Switzerland

>  Many people consider 'OR' a bad idea, and comment out that line.

Could you elucidate or otherwise illuminate the reasons why?  I've been using OR
without too many problems but then again I wasn't aware that OR was another Sun-ism.
Now I wonder...

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: stehman@sutekh.cs.clemson.edu (Jeff Stehman)
Subject: Which ports does sending SMTP use?
Organization: Clemson University Computer Science Dept.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:53:19 GMT


For Unix in general, SunOS in particular, is there any particular range of
ports that *sending* SMTP uses?  Thanks.

--
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stehman@cs.clemson.edu		Dept. of Computer Science
(803)656-2639			Clemson University
From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Date: 18 Jul 92 16:52 MDT
Subject: restrict mail routing through gatew
Nf-ID: #N:schneck.711463925@physik.tu-muen:2071545126:001:750
Nf-From: physik.tu-muenchen.de!schneck    Jul 18 16:52:00 1992


I want to restrict routing of mail through a gateway (say I want to
send mail to *.foo.com and *.bar.edu only through the gateway, mail to
other destinations should go via other ways).  Also, source routing
through foo.com and bar.edu should not be allowed.

What I came up with is using mailertable entries for foo.com and bar.edu,
pointing to a mailer which uses special rulesets to reject addresses with
source routing.

Is there an easier way to do that?  (btw, I'm using 5.65c/IDA-1.4.4)

\Bernhard.
--
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TU Muenchen Physik
8046 Garching           "There is no problem so big that it cannot be
Germany                 run away from"                  Illusions, Richard Bach

Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: jack@loral.cts.com (Jack Arnold Jr.)
Subject: Re: OR (remote mode)?
Organization: Loral Instrumentation
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:46:27 GMT

dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) writes:

>What is the meaning of "OR" in sendmail.cf?  I couldn't
>find it in the sendmail.cf documentation or in generic.cf.
>The comment in the sendmail.cf I'm using says OR is "remote
>mode - send mail through server if mailbox directory is
>mounted."  Which server is used and how can you tell if a
>mailbox directory is mounted? 

My understanding of Remote mode is this:

If OR is set, then mail is delivered locally UNLESS /var/spool/mail
is NFS-mounted from another machine.  If it is, then sendmail will
forward the mail to that other machine for delivery.

Note that you can also define it as, for example,

ORclarissa

in which case mail gets forwarded to the machine called 'clarissa'.

--
Jack Arnold Jr. -- jack@loral.cts.com
Systems Administration, Loral Instrumentation (San Diego, CA)
From: yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: mail: can't send to given user
Date: 23 Jul 92 23:22:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Originator: yates@a.chem.upenn.edu

On an SGI machine running IRIX 4.0.4 I have a peculiar
mail problem I don't understand. All users can send/receive
Internet mail just fine, except one user klein. He can send
mail out, but incoming mail bounces. A 'mail -v' to him
shows 'mail: Can't send to klein' and bounces it.

A finger looks ok, I have the same sendmail.cf working
on more than 6 other SGI's, I've rebuilt it anyway,
and I've removed and readded klein as a user. He tells
me that if a .forward file is there to someone else,
it works. I checked the aliases file and there are
none for him. He has no .mailrc file. I have checked
/usr/mail for a klein file (none), and checked
/usr/spool/mqueue for any files (none).

/bin/mail is exactly the same, including protections and
ownership as at another SGI machine
that I just added a klein account to and it receives
mail just fine.

What can be wrong on the one machine?

Thanks, John
yates@a.chem.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: aas@beta.lanl.gov (Anthony A. Sako)
Subject: $: prefix on RHS
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:55:54 GMT

  I have a question about the $: prefix on the RHS, and about how
sendmail parses names in general. My documentation says that the
$: prefix "... causes rule to terminate immediately, which limits
a rule to one application".

  Does this mean that rules are applied more than once to a name
as it passes through a ruleset ? i.e. after a rule is applied, is
the result from the RHS compared to the LHS again ? or does it
drop down to the next rule in the ruleset ?

  Thanks in advance for any insight.

  I'm at a remote site, and don't get on often enough, so would
you please mail response to aas@lanl.gov.


Thanks again
Tony Sako
[Boeing Computer Service, Richland - (509) 376-9165 - aas@lanl.gov ]

Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: jack@ccsf.caltech.edu (Jack Stewart)
Subject: SUMMARY: "Wildcards in the DOMAINTABLE"
Keywords: ruleset #8, domaintable, multiple domains
Organization: CCSF Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:32:41 GMT

QUESTION:  How do you make ida-sendmail look for multiple domain names
to fully qualify 'user@host'

SOLUTION: The answer to modify Ruleset #8 in the sendmail.cf to look
up addition domains using the $[...$] construct.  You will need to add
a rule for each domain that you wish to add.

However having said that it is not clear that this would be
desireable.  This could lead to ambiguties and name conflicts.  So far
I have been careful to make sure that there are no like names in my
subdomain and in the caltech.edu domain.  However, there are some 25
subdomains within caltech.edu so it is quite likely there could be
like names between the different subdomains.

The DOMAINTABLE can be used to qualify specific hostnames.  For right
now, this seems to be enough.  Fortuneately whenever there is a
bounce, the error message is quite specific ("unable to resolve
hostname, please used fully qualified address") so I will probably not
modify Ruleset #8 unless I get desperate.

Many thanks to the following people for their help and input:

Neil W Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
jlange@ugcs.caltech.edu (Jon E. Lange)
Christophe Wolfhugel <Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr>
Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk>


---Jack

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman)
Subject: OR (remote mode)?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:03:40 GMT

Folks,

What is the meaning of "OR" in sendmail.cf?  I couldn't
find it in the sendmail.cf documentation or in generic.cf.
The comment in the sendmail.cf I'm using says OR is "remote
mode - send mail through server if mailbox directory is
mounted."  Which server is used and how can you tell if a
mailbox directory is mounted? 

My sendmail.cf has a DMuucp entry to use uucp as my primary
mail forwarder and has a DR entry to define a relay host.
I turned up NIS (yellow pages) and mail for local users
started flowing to the yellow pages server, which is not 
what I wanted - I wanted it to stay local.  I suspect the
OR is doing this. 

Any light anyone could shed on this would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks.

Dave Kallman
------------
Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748
d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507
From: lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: mail: can't send to given user
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:33:54 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <84265@netnews.upenn.edu> yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates) writes:
>On an SGI machine running IRIX 4.0.4 I have a peculiar
>mail problem I don't understand. All users can send/receive
>Internet mail just fine, except one user klein. He can send
>mail out, but incoming mail bounces. A 'mail -v' to him
>shows 'mail: Can't send to klein' and bounces it.

Here's a common problem as of 4.0.4: On SGIs /bin/mail is somewhat
picky about who it will deliver mail to.  Not only must you be in
/etc/passwd, but your directory *must* exist; so if you're using some
sort of NFS configuration with regard to either the user's home
directory or a mail spool, and the receiving end doesn't see the
user's directory for whatever reason, you're hosed.
--
Eliot Lear
[lear@sgi.com]
VSBENZI
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: When /usr/mail/mail is NFS-mounted
From: VSBENZI@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (Benzi mizrahi)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:41:26 GMT
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science


In order to provide identical mail environment for our WorkStations'
users we mount /usr/spool/mail from from our designated 'mailhost'.
All SUN w/s by default see these host as sorta mail server and send
their mail via this mailhost, no matter what their sendmail.cf says.

  When this mailhost is down , and SUN w/s users try to send
mail, their mail vanish , dissapers in some black hole.
To check things out I tried this:

Killed sendmail daemon in mailhost.
In so-called subsidiary sun w/s I sent mail 'mail -v user@host'
and I saw the following message repeated forever:

Trying to connect <mailhost ip address> ... connection refused
.
.
.
Trying to connect <mailhost ip address> ... connection refused

over and over again.
The mail never got delivered. It seems that SunOS 4.x by default
see the nfs server of the /usr/spool/mail as mail server no matter
what you put on .cf . What can be done to work around this problem with out
having to retrieve some new version of sendmail and try to install
it on our SUN w/s??

Thanx for you all,

Benzi Mizrahi,
Computing Center,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot, Israel.
Xref: sparky comp.mail:135 comp.unix.wizards:3324
From: coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear)
Newsgroups: comp.mail,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Intercepting incoming mail...
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:06:11 GMT
Reply-To: brian@coconut.com
Organization: Coconut Computing, Inc., La Jolla, CA

I would like to configure a UNIX machine such that any mail sent to a certain
Internet-style subdomain address would actually just get "sent" to a certain
file, i.e., the complete message would get appended to a file.  For example,
assume my machine is "domain.com". I would like to set up a subdomain called
"subdomain".  Say someone sends mail to "fred@subdomain.domain.com".  I would
like it such that when that email arrived, the message would be intercepted
and appended to some file. This would be the case for _all_ mail sent to
"@subdomain.domain.com".  I would process the "append file" on my own.
 
Is this possible across UNIX systems?  How could it be done on the following
platforms:
          1) SCO UNIX v3.2.2 and v3.2.4
          2) SCO XENIX v2.3.4
          3) NeXTSTEP (BSD 4.3)
          4) MWC Coherent
          5) AT&T System V Release 4.x
          6) SunOS
 
Ideally, the same method will work on all UNIX flavors, but I am guessing
that things won't be that easy!  All suggestions/comments welcome, thanks!

Brian Dear /// brian@coconut.com /// Coconut Computing, Inc.
From: will@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (David A. Williams)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:30:31 GMT
Subject: Looking for Bob Abel
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media

I am looking for the phone number or address for Bob Abel, a gentleman who
has produced several multimedia presentations, including a significant one
that was presented at the Fifth International CD-ROM conference in 1990
called "Ulysses."  (It was funded by IBM and written about in a trade rag.)
Mr. Abel produced it with two other partners whose company name was the first
initials of their last names, like ABC or ACE or some such thing.)

Any help?  Thanks.

David Williams
will@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com


(Thanks for even reading this.)
From: marrevola@iris-dcp.es
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
Subject: Audio from SBPRO.
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:57:06 +0100
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D

We need to use Audio in our Multimedia app. We are using a sound blaster pro 2
card. Who knows the MCI commands to switch the audio inputs : Line, MIC and CD?
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
From: gary_michael-duosoft@nova.novanet.org (Gary R. Michael)
Subject: Re: multi-media
Organization: Office for Information Management, University of Illinois
Keywords: IBM multi-media
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:28:23 GMT
X-Posted-From: lansing2.cba.uiuc.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu



The Audio Visual Connection software is a fairly powerful authoring package 
which runs under both OS/2 and DOS (NOT Windows), although certain features 
are limited under DOS, such as MIDI music playback.  It supports a variety 
of resolutions (MCGA, VGA, VGA8, XGA).  It is script-driven, although the 
menu pull-downs can be used to generate simple, linear presentations without 
the necessity of understanding programming principles such as branching and 
looping.  

AVC supports the M-Video Capture Adapter for grabbing still-frame images 
from NTSC, VHS, S-VHS, or RGB input.  Sound comes from the M-Audio Capture 
and Playback Adapter, which records 5.5KHz, 11KHz, 22KHz, and 44KHz 
audio;  music synthesis is also available, enabling the use of standard Type 
1 MIDI format files.  The M-Motion card can be used under AVC to provide 
simultaneous full-motion video from up to three analog video sources.  
Support is coming for the ActionMedia II digital video cards.

AVC stores images from the M-VCA card in an optimized format, producing 
smaller files than those obtained by using the capture mode of the M-Motion 
card.  AVC is generally more powerful than SL!, enabling the creation of 
more sophisticated products.  But this costs, both in development time and 
hardware requirements, particularly memory (minimum 6M for authoring, 4M for 
delivery).
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