barnett@unclejack.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (05/06/89)
>Rserver Remote mode. Deliver through remote SMTP server. > Default is location of /var/spool/mail. I believe this option should be used when you are NFS mounting a /var/spool/mail directory to several suns. When you send mail, the client sends it to the server, which sends the mail message. Your "From: " line says the mail came from the server. If you set your .forward file to point to your account on the server, then all replies will go to the server. If your workstation is down, you will still get mail. -- Bruce G. Barnett <barnett@crdgw1.ge.com>
mlandau@diamond.bbn.com (Matt Landau) (05/06/89)
Oops, botched that one. What the "R" option REALLY seems to do is automatically route mail through a central (smarter) mail server. The notion seems to be that you have one mail gateway that's real smart, and everyone else just passes mail off to it instead of figuring out how to do delivery for themselves. Many people write sendmail.cf files to do this already, but the "R" option seems to make it automatic. I suppose it probably also arranges for all outgoing mail to look like it comes from "user@mail-gateway" instead of "user@diskless-client". That's another thing we already do with our sendmail.cf's, but doing it automagically is nicer. The default mail gateway seems to be whatever machine you get your /var/spool/mail from, based on the theory that that's where you want to mail to seem to originate. Makes sense, actually. [Bill...could you please pull my last, bogus, response to this item before it goes out in Sun-Spots? I'd rather not look quite that stupid in this forum. Let's save Guy the trouble of jumping all over my mistake :-)] -- Matt Landau Rebel without a clue. mlandau@bbn.com