uucp scripts (continued)

[Kent Sandvik]

In article <1990Nov8.120740.19410 at panix.uucp> alexis at panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:

>This stuff is tricky. There are several points:
>
>1) currently, Apple ships a sample /usr/lib/sendmail.cf which contains
>information which would put bogus headers on out-system mail.
>
>2) To avoid sending such mail, they also graciously supply you with a
>zero byte long sendmail.fc. No wonder your mail goes nowhere...
>
>3) They also supply the m4 stuff to build a real sendmail.cf but their
>prototypes are very broken for uucp. Bang paths will work but internet-
>style stuff fails.
>
>The anser, fortunately, is simple. Scarf up the sendmail.cf file I posted
>a few days ago, install it, and go. Shouldn't take more than five minutes.

It's practically impossible to provide a sendmail.cf file that will work
for all sites and network configurations. To start with sendmail is a little
bit, eh, bohemian.

Anyway, back in Australia, where we got all kinds of aborginial network
solutions, I've got a working .cf file from a friendly neighbour on the
net, and after some small tweaking I had sendmail working OK.

So concerning sendmail you just got to trust on friendly people that 
provides working scripts, like Alexis Rosen.

Regards,
Kent Sandvik

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