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From: wca0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (W. Cody Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail and DNS
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:47:33 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Good day.  I am running a Sun SPARCStation 1+ and SunOS 4.1.2.  The machine a
currently the name server for its domain.  I am running sendmail.mx.  I can
receive mail from anywhere, no problem, and I can send it anywhere, BUT...

Rather than specifying my "Reply-to:" address as flanders.me.lehigh.edu, it
specifies it as ME.Lehigh.EDU, which, of course, one cannot reply to.

I was wondering if because flanders is a nameserver, something funky is
happening when it passes the "proper" address to sendmail.  Funny thing is,
though, everywhere else sendmail prints the address in the header, the
canonical name "flanders.ME.Lehigh.EDU" shows up FINE.

Please post any hacks/bug-fixes/comments/suggestions/questions here for the
betterment of others.

Thanks 10^6,
Cody
-- 
"We are socially inept...we NEED alcohol."
                                -KJ

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wacko@Biff.CC.Lehigh.EDU    |  (215) 758-4141 (W)
wca0@yocco.CC.Lehigh.EDU    |  (215) 861-2982 (H)
From: jfk@siesoft.co.uk (Jack Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail truncating messages somewhere???
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:06:56 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I am getting some very strange effects all of a sudden with incoming
mail - I have watched files coming in over UUCP and they are fine at
this point. Then sendmail picks them up and relays them to their final
(local) destinations over SMTP. Somewhere here, files get truncated, 
particularly if they are uuencoded stuff, it seems. The main problem 
is that it does not happen regularly, or even in the same place! 

The setup is as follows:-

PC-AT running ATT SVR4.3 and the standard sendmail which comes with this
in /usr/ucblib. (NOT sendmail.mx)

*loads* of disk spool space (approx 230 Mb)

The mailer specs from sendmail.cf --


Mlocal,   P=/bin/mail, F=rnlsmFD, S=20, R=20, A=mail -d $u 
Mbinmail, P=/bin/mail, F=rnlsmFD, S=20, R=20, A=mail -d $u 
Mprog,    P=/bin/sh,   F=nlsFD,   S=20, R=20, A=sh -c $u 
Mether,	P=[IPC], F=nsmFDMuXC, S=21, R=21, A=IPC $h
Muucp,	P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMRhUu, S=13, R=23,

see - no line limit!

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any pointers gratefully
received.

--
Regards,

Postmaster@siesoft.co.uk, alias:-

Jack Knight, Senior Consultant, D9 Open Systems, Siemens Nixdorf, Bracknell, GB
Domain       jfk@siesoft.co.uk / postmaster@siesoft.co.uk 
Phone        +44 344 850985 (direct) : +44 344 862222 (switchboard)
"Advertising is legalised lying!" - HG Wells
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: tucker@bedford.progress.COM (Kyle Tucker)
Subject: Multi-user mailbox access
Reply-To: tucker@bedford.progress.COM
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:18:12 GMT

This is a repost with a more understandable subject! 

I am trying to use aliases to route mail a file so multiple users can 
access the file as a common mailbox. I can't get sendmail to create the 
mailbox even in 777 directories for non-root users sending to the alias.
Once the mailbox is there, everything appears to be accessible/modifiable
to non-root users. And even if the directory where the mailbox is 775 which
is preferred and the mailbox exists, it allows any user to delete the mailbox
which 775 should not allow as the other users are not in the group that owns
the directory. Can someone shed some light on how this can be done and what
sendmail is doing to dis-allow me creating the mailbox when I mail to the
alias creating it, but allows me (via elm) to delete it when I'm reading it. 

Thanks again!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Kyle Tucker - Email Administrator  | 		Progress Software Corporation
tucker@bedford.progress.com 	   |		14 Oak Park
(617)280-4565			   |		Bedford, Mass. 01730
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Alias database access during rebuild
From: tony@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:18:59 GMT
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Organization: C.S.C., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Keywords: alias database rebuild
Summary: Sendmail bounces mail to aliases during alias database rebuild


  We are running:

	o sendmail-5.65c+IDA-1.4.4.1
	o Fairly stock IDA cf file using xaliases etc
	o Ultrix 4.2A Rev 47 on a DecSystem 5400

  The problem is mail to valid incomming aliases bounces while the
database is being rebuilt.  I assume that sendmail processes are
simply reading a partially built dbm database.  Sendmail is supposed
to avoid by stalling while looking for the @:@ alias which is added at
to the database at the end of a rebuild.  The cf file does have the
"a" option and no "D" option (automatic rebuild).

  Other peculiarities:

 o The alias file is owned by a mail administrator login and the group
is set to mail.  Also the file is group writable so group members can
do alias administration without becoming root (or using setuid stuff
etc).  However...

 o Sendmail is run setuid root.

 o The /usr/lib/newaliases is run regularly via cron as the mail
administrator.

 o I have some subtle changes to the stock IDA sendmail.mc in to allow
outgoing address rewriting for "non local" hosts.  These changes are
confined to rule set 1.  This should have nothing to do with this
problem, but with software almost anything is possible :)

  I can get around this by automagically shutting sendmail down, doing
a build, then starting it again.  But I also want to be able to do
spontaneous updates - has anyone got any clues to what may be going
on?  While we are on the topic how does IDA deal with dbm database
builds while everthing is running?


-- 
Tony Martindale                    Computing Services Centre,
phone: +64 4 495 5051              Victoria University of Wellington,
fax:   +64 4 471 5386              P.O. Box 600, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND.
From: vnagar@godzilla.intel.com (Vivek Nagar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Mail server problems
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:59:04 GMT
Reply-To: vnagar@godzilla.intel.com (Vivek Nagar)
Organization: Intel Organization

Hi,
	Our mail environment is configured so that a master mail server
serves several client workstations. The mail server was recently
configured and since then we are having problems with it. The problem
is that /usr/lib/sendmail seems to hang or is a sleeping process when
we run YP. However when we shutdown YP and use a local /etc/aliases file
everything seems to work fine. What are we doing wrong?

Thanks

Vivek


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From: pj@linz.ensmp.fr (Pierre JOUVELOT <jouvelot@cri.ensmp.fr>)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Looking for syslog analyzing programs on Suns?
Date: 29 Sep 92 12:21:49 GMT
Organization: Ecole des Mines de Paris, France


I'm looking for a program that would analyze /var/adm/syslog files and
return statistics about mail utilisation (largest user, mean values,
largest transfer).  Is there such a beast in the public domain?

Replies via e-mail if possible (my news backlog is large).

Thanks,

Pierre
--
Pierre Jouvelot		       			E-mail: jouvelot@cri.ensmp.fr
Centre de Recherche en Informatique		TPH: +33 (1) 64.69.48.36
Ecole Nationale Supe'rieure des Mines de Paris
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM (Hakan Sjogren)
Subject: sendmail.ida problem using alias:include files
Organization: Computervision Sweden
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:10:26 GMT

sendmail.ida behaves differently than SunOS4.1.1 standard sendmail
when using alias include files.

It will not send to an alias, when the a user is non-local.

Has anybody experienced this?
Any cure to the problem?

This is what I get using mail -v hlista1

hlista1@mailhost... Connecting to sweden (TCP)...
220 primse1 5.65c8/IDA-1.5 Sendmail is ready at Sun, 4 Oct 1992 20:01:46 +0100
>>> HELO primse1
553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local

hlista1@mailhost... Service unavailable

This is the entry in the NIS-alias file:
hlista1: :include:/usr/ALIASFILER/hakan/hlista1

This is the file hlista1 itself:
hakan,hakan@sth-a.prime.com,hakan@primech.prime.com

--end--
From: ejsvehla@happy.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Mutlihub mail system
Summary: Mulihub mail system in a DEC and Sun environment
Date: 3 Oct 92 15:19:33 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

Hello everyone!

I have been able to configure a WAN with multiple mail hubs to allow email to
continue to be available in the event of a particular hub failure.  If this
info could be of any use to anyone please let me know.

happy dumps
 .
From: da@marlowe.cis.Brown.EDU (David Ascher)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: HELP!: SysV setup
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:16:40
Organization: Brown University
Distribution: world
Reply-To: David_Ascher@Brown.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: marlowe.cog.brown.edu

I'm trying to setup sendmail5.65+IDA-1.4.2 on a SysV Motorola machine
which has never seen the light of sendmail.

I will have questions about sendmail.cf, but for now I'm just trying
to get it to compile.

defining CFLAGS = -DSYSV and adding -lPW and -lbsd seemed like good
ideas, and they have worked, except that I still get when trying to
build the sendmail executable:

  gcc -fpcc-struct-return -O -I. -DSYSV  -o sendmail datecompiled.c aliasd..
undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
_flock                              alias.o
_sigmask                            clock.o
_unsetenv                           main.o
_setlinebuf                         main.o
_alloca                             ./libgdbm.a
_Error                              /lib/libPW.a
ld fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to sendmail
*** Error code 1

Note: i've tried w/ cc and gcc with the same results.

Any help appreciated.

--david ascher
From: pnta@warren.med.harvard.edu ( )
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail message filter
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:15:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Organization: Harvard Medical School

These are what I want to do, if posible.

1. Setup some kind of control list to defer 'junk bulk mails ... Listserv'
from crowding our mail system during normal office hours.

2. Stop mails from certain sources from being accepted by our mailrelay
system.

We are using HP Sendmail (16.xx/15.xx) as our mailrelay. I wouldn't mind
switching our mail systems is there is a 'simple' solution to the above.

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt)
Subject: Re: REPOST: Request for minimal sendmail.cf
Organization: Uni Paderborn, Germany
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:22:40 GMT

>>>>> About REPOST: Request for minimal sendmail.cf, Tom Tromey said:

Tom> I've seen mention of a minimal sendmail.cf which forwards mail to
Tom> a mail server (to avoid using Sun's broken OR option) on this
Tom> newsgroup and other places.

Well, the term minimal challenged me. I took
mp.cs.niu.edu:pub/cf/simple.cf and trimmed it down, so that it
delivers absolutely everything to the mail host. It just still worked
for me (as it appears until now). It has 21 lines (not counting empty
lines and comments) of which 8 are luxury (one for the SMTP message,
which you don't need, if you don't accept mail on that machine, 8 are
for all these headers).  Of course you need a smart host to which you
bounce your mail.

Any comments are welcome. (:-)

	Michael
--
###########################################################################
###		The simplified configuration for clients only		###
###		Just sends ABSOLUT everything to the server.		###
###########################################################################
# Current version
DVBUMP-IT

# This node's official domain name
#Dj$w.uni-paderborn.de
Dj$w

###########################################################################
###	The next few lines should be carefully checked.			###
###########################################################################

# Mail server.  ALL mail forwarded here by TCP mailer. [n.n.n.n] is OK.
#DSYourMailServerFully.Qualified.Name
DSmail.uni-paderborn.de

# SMTP login message
De$j $v/$V Sendmail is ready at $b

#				queue directory
OQ/var/spool/mqueue

##########################################################################
#	Header Formats

HReceived: $?sfrom $s $.by $j$?r with $r$. id $i
  ($v/$V$?m for $m$.); $b
H?P?Return-Path: <$g>
H?D?Date: $a
H?F?From: $q
H?x?Full-Name: $x
H?M?Message-ID: <$t.$i@$j>

##########################################################################
## Mailer Specifications #################################################
##########################################################################

Mlocal,	P=/bin/mail, F=DFMlrmns,	R=0, S=0, A=mail -d $u
Mprog,	P=/bin/sh,  F=DFMhlsu, R=10, S=10, A=sh -c $u

MTCP,   P=[IPC], F=CDFMXnmu, E=\r\n, R=0, S=0, A=IPC $h

#   Rule Set #0:	Mailer Resolving Ruleset
#	Just forward everything to our server.

S0
R$+	$#TCP $@$S $:$1		Route most mail to server.

#	Rule Set #1:	Nothing.
S1

#	Rule Set #2:	Nothing.
S2

#	Rule Set #3:	Nothing.
S3

#	Rule Set #4:	Nothing.
S4


--
      Michael Schmidt, FB 17, Uni-GH Paderborn, Warburgerstr. 100,
                     D-4790 Paderborn, West Germany
Mail:   michael@pbinfo.UUCP         or          michael@uni-paderborn.de
From: swlodin@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Steve Lodin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Interesting Sendmail Config Encounter
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:38:51 GMT
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.
Originator: swlodin@kocrsw15


Yesterday, I was helping another admin setup email on a brand new
workstation.  These guys don't have this as part of their machine
setup procedures yet.  Anyway, I was going down my list of things to
do and I got to the "edit sendmail.cf" part.  I told him to fill in
the DS, DW, etc... lines and then to goto Ruleset 0 and comment and
uncomment some of the lines.  His method of uncommenting lines was to
replace the "#" with a space.  That's not what I would do, but I
thought "to each his own".  It ends up that sendmail (stock HP version
under HP-UX 8.07) didn't recognize those lines as valid configuration
information.  I chalked another one up to experience :-)

Steve
-- 
Steve Lodin	Internet: swlodin@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com  UUCP: deaes!swlodin

#include	<standard.disclaimer>
#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: gary@vitellocmc.ca (Gary Braida)
Subject: Acknowledgements in Unix sendmail
Reply-To: gary@scorpio.ic.cmc.ca
Organization: Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:13:23 GMT

Hello sendmail users,

I would like to know if Unix sendmail supports acknowlegements.  For example,
if I send mail to some user (joe@somewhere) I would like to receive an
acknowledgement that joe@somewhere read the message or the message was
successfully delivered to joe's machine.  Is this possible?  If it is, where
should I look for information on how to make the necessary configuration 
changes.


-- 

Gary Braida             |     Canadian       |       ******  *******  ******
email:  braida@cmc.ca   |  Microelectronics  |      *       *  *  *  *
phone:  (613) 545-2914  |    Corporation     |     ******  *     *  ******
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: tony@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale)
Subject: Re: Alias database access during rebuild
Organization: C.S.C., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Keywords: alias database rebuild
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:46:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail

In article <1992Sep29.012541.31169@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <BvBCvn.62r@comp.vuw.ac.nz> tony@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale) writes:
>>
[stuff deleted]
>>
>>  The problem is mail to valid incomming aliases bounces while the
>>database is being rebuilt.
>
>Here is roughly what I use in my 'Makefile' to rebuild aliases:
>
[Neil's Makefile details and explanation deleted]

 Thanks Neil, I'll implement your solution.  Though it does seem to be
more a work-around than a solution.

>>  I can get around this by automagically shutting sendmail down, doing
>>a build, then starting it again.  But I also want to be able to do
>>spontaneous updates - has anyone got any clues to what may be going
>>on?  While we are on the topic how does IDA deal with dbm database
>>builds while everthing is running?
>
>If I recall, there is some file locking (flock() etc).  But I prefer to
>use the same sequence of commands as above for all dbm files.  That is,
>rebuild under a new name, 'rm' the '.dir' file, then 'mv' the new
>'.pag' and '.dir' into place in that order.  This has always worked
>reliably, (and that's even with 10 cpus).

 So does this mean the "wait for @:@ to appear" device, documented in
section 2.4.2 of the Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide, simply
does not work?  At the risk of sounding pedantic, shouldn't this be fixed
or at least noted?

 Similarily with the IDA dbm databases, if the dbm program uses
flock() and sendmail uses flock() then everything should be fine.  I
can't recall anything specific mentioned in the IDA docs on this.
Perhaps I should have a good look at the code, sigh :).

-- 
Tony Martindale                    Computing Services Centre,
phone: +64 4 495 5051              Victoria University of Wellington,
fax:   +64 4 471 5386              P.O. Box 600, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND.
From: amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail.cf question...
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:58:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster


  I am trying to send mail out from my machine, and it arrives at the
other machines on the internet with a complex return address.

My machine is a NeXT named optic.
My mail server (in my local world here) is an SVR 4.2 box named fiber.
We have internet access thru uupsi (some corporate service).

Mail addressed as tony@wildfire.com will get to my NeXT fine.  I'd like my
outgoing mail to have this as a return address, but messages I send
reach the addressee with a return address of optic!tony@uu3.psi.com.

People replying to these messages get thwarted because uupsi only knows
about fiber and the wildfire.com addresses.  How can I amend the
sendmail.cf files on optic and fiber so the outside world gets a nice,
simple, pretty picture of our configuration?

Thanks up front!

-- 
amlovell@phoenix.princeton.edu     ...since 1963.
From: slh1y@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: PROBLEM: Illegal host/domain name
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:27:24 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

I hope this is the correct newsgroup for this question.  Apologies if not.

I recently started working in a new facility and am having problems with
sendmail.  I am neither the network administrator nor a un*x wizard.  I'm
simply a lowly engineer with a Sparcstation IPX on my desk which I use to
work and correspond with the outside world.

At this site, we employ a client-server architecture, and my machine
(hostname: prometheus) is connected along with several others to the server
(hostname: chaos).  I run SunOS 4.1.1.

Here's my problem:  Whenever I send a mail message back to my parent office
(or anywhere else; I'm just using this as an example...) sendmail inserts
my hostname and fully qualified domain name into the message header.  Sadly,
when the recipient replies to the message, the server at my end (chaos)
doesn't know my host/domain name.  A typical response (from PMDF, e.g.)
reads "Illegal host/domain name."  If the person at the other end addresses
the message to me@chaos.domain, the message is delivered without a problem.
Unfortunately, most people, upon receiving an email message, simply 'reply'
to the message -- resulting in bounced mail in my case.

I've repeatedly asked for help from my network guy, but he's swamped, and my
priority is about as high as whale dung.  Any help would be appreciated.
I could send our sendmail.cf, hosts, and whatever files might be helpful in
solving the problem.  The message you are reading originated from my student
account on the Utah State University VAX -- not from my work account.
Please direct email to:
			jay@chaos.idec.sdl.usu.edu
or:
			slh1y@cc.usu.edu

Jay Cliburn
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: kensiski@muddy.nas.nasa.gov (David L. Kensiski)
Subject: Vanilla sendmail -vs- IDA
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 5 Oct 92 09:39:50
Distribution: comp

I am about to upgrade our archaic sendmail version 5.61 to something
more current, and I have been exploring the possibility of using IDA.
What will I be gaining by moving to IDA over just upgrading to 5.67?
What kind of headaches can I expect?  In particular, we are using a
customized sendmail.cf file.  Will this run unchanged under IDA?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

--Dave
--
________________________________________________________________________
David L. Kensiski [KB6HCN]              Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation
kensiski@nas.nasa.gov               NASA Ames Research Center, M/S 258-6   
(415)604-4417                       Moffett Field, California 94035-1000
Date: Monday, 28 Sep 1992 18:41:06 +01
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: multi-homed <local>
From: Andre' Pirard <pirard@vm1.ulg.ac.be>
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
X-XXMessage-ID: <A6ED1000C601180A@ampa.segi.ulg.ac.be>
X-XXDate: Mon, 28 Sep 92 17:39:44 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Liege (Belgium)

SunOS, for one, has the nice feature to allow in a class variable
multiple destination mail addresses (names). This may be useful if the
same host is shared between several groups of pop clients. But, when mail
is received, the To: address is always changed to primary. I wish the
rules, in addition to determining that the address is local, were also
preserving the To: field in this case.

------
Andre' Pirard         SEGI, Universite' de Lie`ge  139.165 IP coordinator
B26 - Sart Tilman     B-4000 Lie`ge 1 (Belgium)           +32 (41) 564932
pirard@vm1.ulg.ac.be  alias PIRARD@BLIULG11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Subject: Re: Mailing direct to a host, how to teach sendmail to do ?
Keywords: sendmail.cf CS
Reply-To: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:30:32 GMT


Things in classes must be simple tokens.

Fred
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail