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Gerard,
I recommend that you subscribe to the zmailer list (zmailer@nic.funet.fi)
and also send this problem to Matti Aarnio (mea@utu.fi), maintainer of
zmailer.
...Larry
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On Thu, 22 May 1997, Gerard MacNeil wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 1997, Larry Brinton wrote:
>
> > I've done what you've requested. mail.cnet.windsor.ns.ca is now a CNAME
> > and the MX record is now set to cnet.windsor.ns.ca
>
> Unfortunately, it did not solve the problem - if I only knew what the
> problem was!
>
> In a nutshell, zmailer is supposed to use dbm/ndbm/gdbm (you pick 'em) to
> consult an in-memory database called "thishost". "thishost" gets created
> from the file '/var/csuite/var/mail/db/localnames'. "thishost" does exist
> as a database (using 'router -i' - talking to the router interactively,
> issue the command "db print thishost"), and all the variations of the name
> are there.
>
> Various zmailer *.cf routines call 'thishost $address'. What is supposed
> to happen is that, if $address matches one of the hostnames in "thishost",
> zmailer is supposed to treat it as a local address.
>
> "thishost $address" fails in all cases.
>
> After the DNS change, I suspected a broken gdbm. I downloaded a new copy,
> compiled, tested and installed it - no change.
>
> I explicitly linked '-lgdbm' in zmailer, recomplied and reinstalled - no
> change.
>
> Finally, I hard coded (in standard.cf, function deliver ()), that if it
> saw "cnet.windsor.ns.ca" it would return "wwhcn.cnet.windsor.ns.ca" and
> continue.
>
> Definitely *NOT* a pretty solution, but for the first time mail to
> 'user@cnet.windsor.ns.ca' and 'user@wwhcn.cnet.windsor.ns.ca' will both be
> handled by zmailer properly.
>
> I have circulated this email relatively widely because I think
> zmailer.2.99.48 has a bug. This is the version I got from
> csuite.chebucto.ns.ca using 'cvs checkout'.
>
> Gerard MacNeil, P. Eng.
>
>
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