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- From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: IDA snedmail config (plus opinion question)
- Message-ID: <Bt5FDp.F90@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 22:20:04 GMT
- References: <rhoward.714081657@matd>
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- Reply-To: Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
-
- >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.)
-
- You either want to keep the daemon running on the clients or have periodic
- invocations of sendmail -q from cron to move items stuck in the queue.
- The clients should deliver directly whenever possible and bypass the
- server. All that needs to be done is to re-write the From: address to
- be user@domain.name.
-
- If you have a shared mail spool exported from the server, then all local
- deliveries should take place on the server.
-
- If you look in the sendmail source directory on uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in
- mail/sendmail/ida/cf/M4 you'll find several sample M4 files for sundry
- configurations similar to what you want to do.
-
- /pbp
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