The version of "sendmail" in A/UX requires your local network to be running with Domain Name Server (DNS), which is /etc/named. The README file in /usr/lib/sendmail.conf directory describes in more detail the type of mailers currently supported.
Choose one of the machines on your network as a primary Domain Name Server
to prevent any host name conflicts. (See the "Setting Up Network Mail" section in the "A/UX Network System Administration" manual on how
to do this.)
The distributed sendmail.cf file included with A/UX doesn't work on every network.
After you have a Domain Name Server configured and running properly on the network, execute these commands to get sendmail working:
# CD /usr/lib
# kill -9 the-running-sendmail-process-id
# mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.orig
# mv sendmail.cf.NEW sendmail.cf
# rm -f sendmail.fc # remove the old sendmail frozen file
# sendmail -bz # create a new sendmail frozen file
# /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m # restart the sendmail
To get all the domain names resolved with the domain name server machine, create a file called /etc/resolv.conf on the machines not running /etc/named.
Here is an example of the content of /etc/resolv.conf:
domain support.apple.com
nameserver 130.43.4.9
Article Change History:
23 Aug 1994 - Reviewed and updated.
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