[695] in SIPB_Linux_Development
New sendmail package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Sep 12 20:35:05 1994
To: linux-athena@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 20:34:29 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
I just created a new sendmail package which uses sendmail 8 and then
athena sendmail.cf file. I have also included a sendmail.cf.local,
which will send mail coming _from_ your host (although it will assume
MIT for destination addresses).
This package assumes that you did not install smail.
If you use the default sendmail.cf, then your linux box will appear
like a normal public athena workstation when you send mail. Mail will
appear to come from username@MIT.EDU. If you use the sendmail.cf.local,
then mail will come from username@your-host.mit.edu.
In any case, mail sent out from your machine will default to be
user@MIT.EDU (i.e., if you send mail to "warlord", then it really will
go to "warlord@MIT.EDU", not "warlord@your-host.mit.edu").
You can also use sendmail 8 as a local sendmail daemon. Although this
is not a supported configuration, it is possible to do it. Local mail
aliases (in the file /usr/lib/aliases), require a special setup,
documented in the existing aliases file. If you want to run a
sendmail daemon, you should remove smtpd from your inetd.conf file,
restart inetd, and then run "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m" out of your
bootup script.
This will hopefully fix a number of complaints about the mail support
from linux-athena.
Enjoy!
-derek
