Sendmail YP alias resolution

[Dan O'Neill]

Hardware:	Sparc 1+
OS:		4.1
Sendmail:	As installed from Sun, /usr/lib/sendmail.
Sendmail.cf:	/usr/lib/sendmail.subsidary.cf

YP master:	MicroVAX II, Ultrix 3.0

I believe I may be confused about something, but I'm just not sure what.
When using the above configuration, sendmail doesn't resolve YP based
aliases.  Is there something that has to be 'turned' on or changed to make
sendmail make use of YP based aliases?

I have verified that the aliases are available on the system by executing
a 'ypmatch dan mail.aliases'.  The return value is 'dan at cedar', the system
where I recieve mail.

DEC's version of sendmail works a bit strange in that it resolves YP
aliases internally with no changes to the .cf file.  Basically, if YP is
running and mail.aliases is present, DEC's version of sendmail uses those
aliases.  Does Sun's version of sendmail work in a similar fashion?

I have gone as far as compiling Sendmail 5.64 on the Sun (many thanks to
the readers of comp.mail.sendmail for their help) and proved that YP
aliases can be resolved with that version.  I would, however, like to
stick with the vendors version of sendmail if at all possible.

Thanks everyone.

Dan O'Neill                     Cadence Design Systems
dan at autosys.com                 San Diego, CA
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