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- Path: sparky!uunet!airgun!marley!freyder
- From: freyder@was.waii.com (Rob Freyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: SGI and their sendmail !
- Message-ID: <freyder.724397542@marley>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 05:32:22 GMT
- Sender: news@airgun.wg.waii.com
- Distribution: na
- Organization: Western Atlas Software - A Litton/Dresser Company
- Lines: 30
- Nntp-Posting-Host: westech.was.waii.com
- Phone: (713) 972-6678
-
- Hi,
-
- Sigh. I just noticed something peculiar about SGI's sendmail. It doesnt
- like delivering mail to NFS mounted mailboxes.
-
- Our mailhost is a Sun running IDA sendmail. (Yeah !) Our sgi boxes mount
- their mail directory from the Sun. If the Sun does the delivery all is well.
- If the Sgi does local delivery to this NFS mounted directory strange things
- happen. Like the owner of the file gets changed to the owner ID listed in
- the sendmail.cf file ! The sgis dont necessarily run NIS so I guess the
- potential for Userid mismatch is there. I checked and the IDs are the same
- on both machines. Afterall reading/deleting of the mail works fine.
- I dont understand it must they change the owner ?!!!
-
- I am in the process of building IDA for these boxes but it just bothers me
- that this doesnt work.
-
- I would like ALL mail from the SGI to go to the Sun for delivery.
- EVEN local mail. This would solve the problem. We use hiding so addresses
- get rewritten as user@domain. This works great on the suns/RS6000s
-
-
- Thanks. Rob.
- --
- Rob Freyder Western Atlas Software
- ____ ____ ____ Western Atlas International Inc.
- \ \ / /\ / /\ A Litton / Dresser Company
- \ \/ / \ / / \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- \ / / \ / /\ \ Internet : freyder@was.waii.com
- \/___/ \/___/ \___\ Voice : (713) 972-6678
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