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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smit@MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 14 14:06:28 1994
From: smit@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 14:05:49 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
I've set up my machine (shtetl) so that you can send mail to local
mailing lists. There were a few things though in getting this set up.
One is that the athena sendmail.cf does not work the way you would
expect.
1) if you have a frozen sendmail.fc file, trying to run sendmail with
any options would cause a seg fault (I tried -bi and smtpd). i got
around this problem by removing /etc/sendmail.fc
2) when I send email to any of the lists, it has to be sent to
list@shtetl.LOCAL, (both when mail is sent and in the aliases file) I'm
not sure whether or not users would be affected by this though.
I also have lots of zombie smtpd processes on my machine, but from what
I read in the sendmail book, I don't believe that this is abnormal.
One other thing to note is that for delivery to the local host, you have
to tell sendmail what program it should use, probably /bin/mail in order
to deliver it to /usr/spool/mail.
I hope I've been of some help in your efforts. For more information,
talk to Matt Power, who helped me start up what I currently have
running, or to anyone else who is familiar with sendmail configuration.
Scott
