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- From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: IDA snedmail config (plus opinion question)
- Message-ID: <rhoward.714081657@matd>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:00:57 GMT
- Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
- Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Lines: 41
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- I took the following advice:
-
- drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
-
- >My advice : if you can, don't use stock sendmail. Use IDA sendmail, with the
- >M4 configuration files. Your life will be much simpler.
-
- Now I am knee deep into this and am soliciting some opinions. I
- have a "mail server" plus a number of "workstations". Mail addresses
- are of the form user@domain.name (with no hostname involved). Do
- I
-
- a) turn off sendmail (daemon) on the workstations since nobody
- should be sending to user@host, or
-
- b) run sendmail configured to immediately deliver all incoming
- mail to the "mail server" ?
-
- (I feel like (b) is the best as all mail eventually gets to
- where it was probably intended to go. I would entertain reasoning
- as to why (a) is better.)
-
- Given the I do (b) and assuming this type of configuration is
- pretty popular, would anyone mind sending me samples of some M4
- files for each of the "mail server" and the "workstation"? I
- suspect the latter would be the most useful since it should be
- simple enough to port easily. The "mail server" M4 file might
- be unique enough that I don't benefit much from following the
- samples. Well anyway, most any input would be appreciated...
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Robert
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