sendmail config problem

2007-12-25 10:31:00

Solution - need tabs for separators for rulesets in sendmail.cf file

had to make sure that what separated the following were tabs

R$*@irus.rri.on.ca $#local$:$1 # also my name

So much for cutting and pasting...

>

>Hi!

>

>My network is going to be changing from irus.rri.uwo.ca to

>irus.rri.on.ca, and I need to accommodate this in my current

>sendmail.cf file. I've added

>

>R$*@irus.rri.on.ca $#local$:$1 # also my name

>

>to the first ruleset, but it doesn't work. What I need sendmail

>to do now is to accept mail to the new domain as well as to the

>current domain which is irus.rri.uwo.ca. I'm currently running

>SunOS 4.1.3_U1 on a Sparc 10. Is there a simple way for me to

>do this? The error message that I get now is

>

>>From MAIL-DAEMON@irus.rri.uwo.ca Fri May 9 10:46:46 1997

>>Date: Fri, 9 May 97 10:46:45 EDT

>>From: MAIL-DAEMON@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Mail Delivery Subsystem)

>>Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable

>>To: postmaster@irus.rri.uwo.ca

>>

>> ----- Transcript of session follows -----

>>Connected to vesta.irus.rri.uwo.ca:

>>>>> HELO irus.rri.uwo.ca

>><<< 553 irus.rri.uwo.ca host name configuration error

>>554 <thielen@irus.rri.on.ca>... Service unavailable

>>

No one sent me the correct solution... A sendmail guru

here found it very quickly...

Thanks a lot for all the tips go to

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>

"Plesha, Thomas A. (NSLC Pacific)" <tplesha@nslcpacific.navy.mil>

A Space Oditty <ziggy@trends.ca>

Baranyai Pal <bp@heliosz.vsz.bme.hu>

Claus Assmann <ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de>

Marcelo Maraboli <maraboli@dcsc.utfsm.cl>

Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com>

bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)

jnguyen@everest.TO.HAC.COM (John Nguyen)

rali@meitca.com (Reto Lichtensteiger)

sue

Susan KJ Thielen System/Network Manager

Imaging Lab, Robarts Research Institute Phone: (519) 663-5777x4029

PO Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive Fax: (519) 663-3900

London, ON N6A 5K8 Canada E-mail: thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca

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