This is how you stop Sun sendmail from looking in DNS for local subdomains! Thanks Crist! Timothy On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Crist Clark wrote: > Timothy Arnold wrote: >> >> Dear Sun Managers, >> >> Does anyone know why Sendmail ignores the Smarthost directive for >> local >> domains? > > This is a wonderful "feature" added to Sun's localization of Sendmail. > It's been a while since I had to hunt down and tear this abomination > out > of a Sun-supplied .cf file, but looking over a subsidiary.cf from a > Solaris 8 system, this rule, > > # figure out what should stay in our local mail system > > R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#esmtp $@ $2.$m $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3 > > Would seem to be the culprit. If you go to, > /usr/lib/mail/cf/subsidiary-v7sun.mc, you'll see where Sun adds that. > > Either make a modified .mc or nuke it out of the .cf directly. > > What made (still makes?) this particularly painful was that the Sun > Sendmail had some hacks in it to make it NIS aware. Not sure if it > still > has that. > -- > Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com > Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387 > > The information contained in this e-mail message is confidential, > intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. > If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, or the > employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, > you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or > copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this e-mail in error, please contact postmaster@globalstar.com _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Sep 25 03:59:10 2003
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