Hi,
This weekend, I've upgraded our mail server on Ultrix 4.4 to sendmail
8.9.2. All our Alphas are relaying their outgoing e-mail through this mail
server. The mail server is configured to require the from: address to have
the domain name tacked on. Mail sent, for instance from "tom" is not
accepted. It needs "tom_at_radar.tu-graz.ac.at" now, even for locally
received e-mail.
While this works without problems with mails sent by pine, the /bin/mail
and /bin/mailx commands do not work and cause the mails to be bounced
by the mail server like this:
While talking to finwds01:
>>> MAIL From:<tom>
<<< 553 <tom>... Domain name required
554 tom_at_finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at... Remote protocol error
Apparently pine itself appends the domain name to the sender address
and mail and mailx do not.
I have already checked my Digital Unix 4.0D sendmail setup and my
/var/adm/sendmail/hostname.m4 file contains:
dnl -- Name tacked on exported local addresses (user_at__ExportedName)
define(_ExportedName, {finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at})dnl
which apparently does not work!! When I add me to this list:
dnl -- Users which always need $j tacked on
define(_NonHiddenUsers, {root postmaster news uucp mailer-daemon rdist
nobody})dnl
the outgoing mail gets "xxxxx.tu-graz.ac.at" tacked on and local
e-mail is delivered.
But for some reason, the _ExportedName setting does not work.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks a lot // Tom
P.S: As an aside: I have upgraded one machine to Digital Unix 4.0E and
found the following strange behaviour: The local mail relay
is defined as finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at which has both, an DNS
A record and a DNS MX record. However the MX record points to our
campus wide mailgate. Now all outgoing e-mail, even if it's a local
e-mail goes through the campus mailgate and comes back to our local
mail server. This is not necessary, IMHO. Any idea anyone how
to avoid this?
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Received on Mon Jan 18 1999 - 11:37:46 NZDT