>   >> sendmail likes to fully qualify things, especially for smtp
>   >> transactions.  if i "echo test | mail root", my fully qualified
>   >> hostname gets added.  if i "echo test | mail root@localhost", the
>   >> localhost piece gets removed and replaced with my fully qualified
>   >> hostname.  it sounds to me like your machine wasn't completely
>   >> configured.  
>   >
>   >You mean "sounds to me like your machine wasn't completely configured 
>   >BY SYSINST."  Yes, that's why I'm raising the issues.
>   
>   sysinst isn't something i know all that much about.  i do, however,
>   know how i want my machines to behave, so i check all sorts of things
>   and tweak stuff manually all the time.  as to what sysinst does, or
>   how much it should or should not, i can't say.
>
>the problem is that /etc/daily, /etc/security, etc., used to all
>"just work" for a default install.  since sendmail was upgraded
>a while ago that hasn't been the case.  something needs to be
>done by hand to make this work...
>
>ie, you broke a feature of netbsd ... do you not consider that
>to be a problem?

i see two solutions to this problem.

(1) make sendmail suid root again (and remove the /etc/mail/submit.cf
file).

(2) change the netbsd-proto.mc file not to do wildcard listening and
enable sendmail in the default install.

i don't think either of those will be liked by a large number of
people.  any other ideas?

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