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From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sendmail, sendmail.cf, etc.
Date: 4 Sep 1996 21:32:45 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Yes, I have that line
(I have the standart sendmail.cf coming with the distribution - 2.1.5)
It does not work though.

steve farrell (spfarrel@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) writes:


: you want to add the following m4 file:

: #####  @(#)use_cw_file.m4       8.1 (Berkeley) 6/7/93  #####

: and rebuild configuration.  you can then add hostnames to a file
: called /etc/sendmail.cw (e.g.) and sendmail will receive mail for
: those hosts and deliver locally (this is what you want, right?)

: --steve farrell

: > 
: > 
: > Hello!
: > 
: > I have the following problem:
: > I need to set the sendmail (host ALFA) so that it can receive e-mails
: > for another machine (host BETA) if that one is down,
: >  and not just receive, but DELIVER
: > them locally (i.e. to the mailboxes at ALFA), as if they were send to this host.
: > 
: > Ok, I set MX records to have ALFA as a forwarder for BETA with the low
: > precedence.
: > on ALFA:
: > I tried to include BETA in Cw (which is enough for IRIX for example).
: > I tried to include BETA in sendmail.cw
: > this doesn't help.
: > What am I missing ?
: > What is so specific about sendmail for FreeBSD that it doesn't want
: > to handle this ?
: > 
: > thanks.
: > 
: > --
: > IgoR@uiuc.edu
: > aka StR
: >