sendmail thinks it's on a BITNET host (was (none))

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <26456 at adm.brl.mil>, bigrigg at covax.co.iup.edu (Michael W. Bigrigg) writes:
|> I was wondering if anyone might have seen this problem before.  We are
|> installing sendmail on a NeXT LAN of 4 cubes.  The problem that we are
|> having is that the mail is routed from donald.co.iup.edu but the header
|> shows that it is coming from donald.bitnet and we have no idea what is
|> causing it.  Possibly because of it we are also not receiving any mail
|> into the NeXTs.  Any suggestions.  Here is a sample header.  Oh, duey is
|> one of the nodes (the one that I sent from) which gets routed to donald
|> to be sent out.

  It seems to me that this question would be more appropriate in
comp.mail.sendmail or comp.sys.next than it is in comp.unix.questions, but
since the Message-ID of your message has "@adm.brl.mil" in it, I assume that
you subscribe to the info-unix mailing list but don't read NetNews, so you
can't read those newsgroups.  If you can, you might want to move the
discussion to one of those groups.  Because I'm not sure you can, I have
cross-posted this message to those newsgroups, but directed followups to
comp.unix.questions, so you'll see responses from people in those newsgroups.

  Unless NeXT has changed sendmail significantly, it sounds to me that the
problem, simply, is that your sendmail.cf file is incorrectly configured. 
Without knowing more about the NeXT machine, and without seeing a copy of your
sendmail.cf file, that's the best guess I can make.  That's why it would
probably be a good idea for you to discuss this with sendmail people and/or
people who know about the NeXT machine, rather than with the info-unix list.

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