SUMMARY: Sendmail ignoring "smarthost" ?

This is how you stop Sun sendmail from looking in DNS for local 
subdomains!

Thanks Crist!

Timothy

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Crist Clark wrote:

> Timothy Arnold wrote:
> > Dear Sun Managers,
> >
> > Does anyone know why Sendmail ignores the Smarthost directive for 
> > local
> > domains?
>
> This is a wonderful "feature" added to Sun's localization of Sendmail.
> It's been a while since I had to hunt down and tear this abomination 
> out
> of a Sun-supplied .cf file, but looking over a subsidiary.cf from a
> Solaris 8 system, this rule,
>
>   # figure out what should stay in our local mail system
>
>   R$* < @ $* .$m. > $*    $#esmtp $@ $2.$m $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3
>
> Would seem to be the culprit. If you go to,
> /usr/lib/mail/cf/subsidiary-v7sun.mc, you'll see where Sun adds that.
>
> Either make a modified .mc or nuke it out of the .cf directly.
>
> What made (still makes?) this particularly painful was that the Sun
> Sendmail had some hacks in it to make it NIS aware. Not sure if it 
> still
> has that.
> --
> Crist J. Clark                               crist.clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Globalstar Communications                                (408) 933-4387
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