Hi HP3000-L,

k jones wrote:
>
> I'm confused, which isn't unusual.
>
> If I want to send mail from my 3000 I need
> sendmail/ix, plus i have to set up my 3000 as a DNS?
> (and I thought I saw something about bind/ix and other
> stuff).
>
> I need all this just to SEND ONLY?
>
> Does it matter that our server has DNS &  Proxy.
>
> I'm just worried because I really don't understand DNS
> and what effect it will have on the 3000 and our
> network. And I'm not real good with shell or the HFS
> part of the 3000.

Sendmail/iX doesn't require that you run a DNS *server* on your e3000.  It does
however want to make client requests of some DNS server somewhere, either
running on the same e3000 as Sendmail/iX, or on some external possibly
non-e3000 machine.

Sendmail/iX will read /etc/resolv.conf aka /SYS/NET/RESLVCNF to determine which
nameserver to use.  It's probably simplest to specify your already existing
corporate DNS server in this file.

But while my precompiled Sendmail/iX binary doesn't require DNS BIND/iX, it
*does* require Syslog/iX to be running on your e3000.  Follow the link from the
Sendmail/iX home page to my freeware Syslog/iX, or you can use HP's Syslog/iX
bundled with 6.0, or you can obtain beta patch SYLLX17A from the HP Response
Center to get an official HP syslog for a 5.5 machine.

- Mark B.