sklower%bay.Berkeley.EDU@ginger.berkeley.edu (Keith Sklower) (02/02/89)
In a previous sun-spots, Charlie Dennett of Eastman Kodak asks for advice on choosing to run clients without sendmail. Sun recommends this as a ``performance enhancement'' for 4.0. (I call a spade a spade, and this technique seems more like a desparation measure). Charlie (and others): If all the other suns in kodak are running the name daemon, and you can persuade everybody to run the version of sendmail that consults it, then you can enter ``MX'' records for the clients to be directed to the server instead. Another technique is to rewrite your sendmail configuration files so that all the mail appears to originate from the server, rather than the client. (I am not a sendmail wizard but at least 2 people around here have done it). Neither of these is a fool-proof solution, but it may help.