Sendmail + Sites with names in uppercase = Argh!
Bill Irwin
bill at TWG.UUCP
Thu May 31 14:42:59 AEST 1990
In article <1893 at zap.UUCP> fortin at zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) writes:
>Greetings!
>
> I am running ix/386 v.2.0.2, and I have a couple of uucp
>neighbours which have UPPERCASE characters in their machine names. This
>causes a problem with sendmail because on a "mail user at SITE.uucp", it
>turns the name into "site" and then complains that "site" is unknown.
>
> I thought of making the entry for "SITE" be "site" in my Systems
>file, but then the problem shifts: HDB uucp will not recognize "SITE" as
>"site" when it logs into my machine.
>
> Before I start thinking of big ugly patches, could someone suggest
>a way of telling HDB that SITE and site and functionally equivalent machines?
>(I don't have the full documentation for the "Permissions" file)
I encountered this problem when installing our system. Our system name
is "TWG", but mail would not transfer properly. I was told to put
"MYNAME=twg" in the Permissions entry for the connecting site...and it
worked!
I know the "gettydefs" file could have all "@" replaced with "TWG", then
change "/etc/systemid" to "twg", but I thought this was more elegant with
less future administrivia to worry about.
Good luck.
--
Bill Irwin
TWG The Westrheim Group
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