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- From: mcclure@mamba.cs.unm.edu (Brent mcclure)
- Subject: Best choice: pathalias/sendmail or smail?
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:53:35 GMT
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- We will soon be changing a new machine to be our major relay host
- and are faced with some decisions about what software to use. Our current
- relay host is an internet SMTP relay for about 40 hosts on a local network
- and is also a UUCP relay for about a dozen sites connected to it.
-
- Because of the UUCP connections we require some means of looking up
- addresses in a pathalias database. Our current machine does this by running
- BSD4.3 sendmail that resolves to 'uumail' when appropriate. The new mail
- relay is to be a Decstation 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2a.
-
- Basically the setup we have now works and we have no overwhelming
- desire to dump sendmail, however from what I have gleaned from some postings
- and FAQ's we should probably find something more up-to-date that uumail.
-
- In order to obtain the pathalias lookups it appears that we have the
- following choices:
-
- 1. Patch the sendmail source using something like the 'uucpdomain'
- to get the pathalias capability directly in sendmail.
-
- 2. Find some agent that sendmail can resolve to like 'uumail' that
- can do the pathalias lookups. It appears that older versions of
- smail can be set up to do this. One appeal of this choice is
- that this will probably require the least hacking on our current
- .cf file. What are the recommended agents for doing this now?
-
- 3. Go with IDA sendmail.
-
- 4. Dump sendmail all together and go with smail 3.
-
- I don't really have enough insight to know right off which of these choices
- might be the best. I would appreciate any input or suggestions.
-
- thanks,
- Brent McClure
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