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- From: jack@loral.cts.com (Jack Arnold Jr.)
- Subject: Re: OR (remote mode)?
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- Organization: Loral Instrumentation
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 21:46:27 GMT
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- dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) writes:
-
- >What is the meaning of "OR" in sendmail.cf? I couldn't
- >find it in the sendmail.cf documentation or in generic.cf.
- >The comment in the sendmail.cf I'm using says OR is "remote
- >mode - send mail through server if mailbox directory is
- >mounted." Which server is used and how can you tell if a
- >mailbox directory is mounted?
-
- My understanding of Remote mode is this:
-
- If OR is set, then mail is delivered locally UNLESS /var/spool/mail
- is NFS-mounted from another machine. If it is, then sendmail will
- forward the mail to that other machine for delivery.
-
- Note that you can also define it as, for example,
-
- ORclarissa
-
- in which case mail gets forwarded to the machine called 'clarissa'.
-
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- Jack Arnold Jr. -- jack@loral.cts.com
- Systems Administration, Loral Instrumentation (San Diego, CA)
-