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2 total messages Started by ken@syd.dit.CSIR Wed, 25 Sep 1991 04:07
why has sendmail become chatty?
#3961
Author: ken@syd.dit.CSIR
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1991 04:07
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On non-mailhub machines, I made one fix in the /etc/sendmail.cf
distributed by Sun, namely

23c23
< Dj$w.$m
---
> Dj$w

because mailhost's sendmail daemon was getting sent domain names like
seurat.syd.dit.csiro.au.dit.csiro.au which provoked a harmless repartee
from mailhost's sendmail daemon: why do you call yourself ...,
presumably referring to the unrecognizable domain name.

However a side effect seems to be that "mail ken" behaves now like
"mail -v ken", i.e.

[seurat 258] mail ken
Subject: test
hello
..
EOT
[seurat 259] Trying 130.155.128.18...  connected.
220 ditsydh.syd.dit.csiro.au 5.64+/IDA/DIT-0.9 Sendmail is ready at Wed, 25 Sep
91 14:03:53 +1000
>>HELO ditsyds.syd.dit.csiro.au
250 Hello ditsyds.syd.dit.csiro.au, pleased to meet you
>>MAIL FROM:<ken>
250 <ken>... Sender ok
>>RCPT TO:<ken>
250 <ken>... Recipient ok
>>DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>.
250 Ok
>>QUIT
221 ditsydh.syd.dit.csiro.au closing connection

Why?

By the way this doesn't happen with MH (unless I ask for -wat -ver -snoop).

For comparison, this is on a machine with the old sendmail.cf:

[miro 4] mail -v ken
Subject: hello
foo
..
EOT
[miro 5] Trying 130.155.128.18...  connected.
220 ditsydh.syd.dit.csiro.au 5.64+/IDA/DIT-0.9 Sendmail is ready at Wed, 25 Sep
91 13:59:23 +1000
>>HELO ditsydm.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU.dit.CSIRO.AU
250 Hello ditsydm.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU, why do you call yourself ditsydm.syd.dit.CSI
RO.AU.dit.CSIRO.AU?
>>MAIL FROM:<ken>
250 <ken>... Sender ok
>>RCPT TO:<ken>
250 <ken>... Recipient ok
>>DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>.
250 Ok
>>QUIT
221 ditsydh.syd.dit.csiro.au closing connection

why isn't this sendmail using mailhost? [was: why has sendmail become chatty?]
#3970
Author: ken@syd.dit.CSIR
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1991 02:32
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Thanks to those of you who told me that I had made a freeze file with
-v; that was the problem.

Another problem:

Machine leger's sendmail refuses to pass the mail on to mailhost,
preferring to deliver on its own. Another machine miro with the same
(byte for byte) /etc/sendmail.cf and /usr/lib/sendmail does call up
mailhost.  The /etc/rc* scripts are the same, as are the contents of
/usr/lib.  One difference is that a /etc/sendmail.pid is created at
boot time on leger but not on miro.  Another is that leger does contact
mailhost for foreign addresses.  I suspect the resolver but other
applications have no problems with addresses.

They are both Sparc 2's with SunOS 4.1.1 and the standard software
installation.

(The one that doesn't work)

[leger 79] mail -v nobody
Subject: test
test
..
EOT
[leger 80] nobody... aliased to  /dev/null
/dev/null... Sent

(and the one that does)

[miro 1] mail -v nobody
Subject: test
test
..
EOT
[miro 2] Trying 130.155.128.18...  connected.
220 ditsydh.syd.dit.csiro.au 5.64+/IDA/DIT-0.9 Sendmail is ready at Thu, 26 Sep
91 12:16:26 +1000
>>HELO ditsydm.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU
250 Hello ditsydm.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU, pleased to meet you
>>MAIL FROM:<ken>
250 <ken>... Sender ok
>>RCPT TO:<nobody>
250 <nobody>... Recipient ok
>>DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>.
250 Ok
>>QUIT
221 ditsydh.syd.dit.csiro.au closing connection

Thanks in advance.

	Ken
	ken@syd.dit.csiro.au

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