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- From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: IDA snedmail config (plus opinion question)
- Message-ID: <rhoward.714143037@matd>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:03:57 GMT
- References: <rhoward.714081657@matd> <Bt5FDp.F90@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
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- paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:
-
- >rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
-
- >> 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.
-
- I had forgotten about the queue. (a) is definitely better then....
-
- >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.
-
- Why is that clients should directly deliver? Is it a server loading
- issue? To me, it seemed like just having all clients dump to the
- server was better because then you only had one real point on the
- net to worry about (w.r.t sendmail...)
-
- >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.
-
- I looked through those; I just wish they were commented a little
- more heavily (considering my newbie status with sendmail-type issues).
- I guess some experimentation is in order....
-
- Thanks,
- Robert
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