Sendmail setup

[Dr. Paul Fons]

  I have been trying to setup sendmail on my Sony RISC workstation under
4.3BSD and have been having some troubles.  I build a sendmail.cf file 
using the utility Sony provides called mailconf with a descriptor file
containing the following (desc.dat)

name:     bukko
lower_level_name: chipmunk
name: chipmunk.bukko
lower_level_name: none
newstaka: local  chipmunk.bukko
                 bukko


which generated a (rather large) sendmail.cf file, which I then attempted to
use by installing it in /usr/lib/sendmail.cf and restarting the sendmail
deamon.  When I attempted to send mail however I am faced with the following
message

>From paul Fri Feb  1 19:44:29 1991
Return-Path: <Mailer-Daemon>
Received: by chipmunk.domain (4.0/SMI-4.0)
	id AB01670; Fri, 1 Feb 91 19:44:26 JST
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 19:44:26 JST
From: Mailer-Daemon (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
Message-Id: <9102011044.AB01670 at chipmunk.domain>
To: paul
Status: R

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
421 Host mailhost not found for mailer ether.
550 paul at bk.tsukuba.ac.jp... Host unknown

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <paul>
Received: by chipmunk.domain (4.0/SMI-4.0)
	id AA01668; Fri, 1 Feb 91 19:44:26 JST
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 19:44:26 JST
From: paul (Dr. Paul Fons)
Message-Id: <9102011044.AA01668 at chipmunk.domain>
To: paul at bk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Subject: test mail

  This mail fails ... what is wrong?



Any ideas what is going on (for those that know about Sony's).  I also attempted 
to build a freeze file by using /usr/lib/sendmail -bz as root with the sendmail
process terminated to build the sendmail.fc file, but the file remained zero
length after the command -- any ideas as to what might be causing this?





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						Dr. Paul Fons	
						University of Tsukuba
						Institute of Applied Physics
						Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken
						JAPAN   305

						paul at bk.tsukuba.ac.jp
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