SGI sendmail problems

[Bill Kish]

Any SGI sendmail gurus want to take a crack at this ?

In the following, I am sending mail from a SUN 3/50 (128.6.14.23, 
kish.rutgers.edu) to an IRIS 4D/80 GTX, version 3.1C (128.6.3.12, 
garnet.rutgers.edu).  

kish.rutgers.edu % mail -v kish at garnet
Subject: testing from kish.rutgers.edu

Hello to user kish on garnet.rutgers.edu

EOT
kish.rutgers.edu % kish at garnet... Connecting to garnet.rutgers.edu (tcpld)...
220 garnet.rutgers.edu Sendmail 5.52/1.15 ready at Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:14:08 EDT
>>> HELO kish.rutgers.edu
250 garnet.rutgers.edu Hello kish.rutgers.edu, pleased to meet you
>>> MAIL From:<kish at jove.rutgers.edu>
250 <kish at jove.rutgers.edu>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<kish at garnet.rutgers.edu>
250 <kish at garnet.rutgers.edu>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 Ok
>>> QUIT
221 garnet.rutgers.edu closing connection
kish at garnet... Sent

...

So far so good.  However, I get a message back from the SGI's postmaster
which says:

>From Postmaster at garnet.rutgers.edu Tue Apr 18 14:48:01 1989
Received: from garnet.rutgers.edu by jove.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.1/3.04) 
        id AA10117; Tue, 18 Apr 89 14:47:57 EDT
Received: from kish.rutgers.edu by garnet.rutgers.edu (5.52/1.15) 
        id AA05734; Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:14:09 EDT
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:14:09 EDT
From: Postmaster at garnet.rutgers.edu (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Message-Id: <8904182214.AA05734 at garnet.rutgers.edu>
To: <kish at jove.rutgers.edu>
Status: R

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> HELO garnet.rutgers.edu
<<< 553 garnet.rutgers.edu I refuse to talk to myself
554 <kish at garnet.rutgers.edu>... Service unavailable

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: from kish.rutgers.edu by garnet.rutgers.edu (5.52/1.15) 
        id AA05729; Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:14:09 EDT
Received: by kish.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.1/3.04) 
        id AA05570; Tue, 18 Apr 89 14:47:43 EDT
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 14:47:43 EDT
From: kish at jove.rutgers.edu
Message-Id: <8904181847.AA05570 at kish.rutgers.edu>
To: kish at garnet.rutgers.edu
Subject: testing from kish.rutgers.edu


Hello to user kish on garnet.rutgers.edu

 
...

Also, the following message gets logged in the SGI's /usr/adm/SYSLOG file:

Apr 18 14:50:28 garnet.rutgers.edu sendmail[5695]: mailer error, mailer=tcp error=69

...

I tried calling the Geometry Hotline, but after two weeks or so, I was told 
that the developers know there is a problem but that I would have to use it
the way it is until they got around to fixing it.  The problem supposedly
had something to do with sendmail and nameservice.  The version of sendmail
running on the SGI is 5.52 - does anyone know if this version of sendmail
knows how to work with a nameserver ?  And how about MX records ?  Can
anyone tell me what "tcp error=69" means (here again, the Geometry Hotline
either couldn't or wouldn't say specifically what it was) ?  
	And just to thicken the plot, I can send mail from garnet.rutgers.edu
to kish.rutgers.edu with no problem !

Thanks,
Bill Kish

email: kish at jove.rutgers.edu

ps. I would have posted the config file I'm using, but this is message is long 
enough as it is.  I will happily supply it to anyone interested.

pss. The host jove.rutgers.edu is the mail server for kish.rutgers.edu