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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!erinews.ericsson.se!eua.ericsson.se!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: steve farrell <spfarrel@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: sendmail, sendmail.cf, etc. X-Nntp-Posting-Host: phaedrus.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <8791aqy0yc.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 39 Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 References: <50k72c$2ih@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:27:39 GMT 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 >