david@lta.com (David B. Lewis) (04/11/91)
I have a small network of various workstations. I'd like to be able to handle mail forwarding by having all machines forward mail to our machine which is connected to the outside world (via a uucp link). This would let me maintain local and external aliases on a single machine and would also permit uucp-style bang connections from machines which aren't uucp-connected. Unfortunately, my ambition exceeds my ability to modify the sendmail.cf file properly to avoid needing to handle these special cases for each machine. What I would really like is a rule that says "forward this untouched to the mailhost and let it deal with it" but I don't see how to wrap the address up to do that without going through the process of parsing it and rewriting it. Is there an easy way to do this with a minimal configuration file? The main machine is running SunOS 4.1. Most of the clients are DECstations of various Ultrix vintage, but we also have an HP9000 with HPUX 6.5 and an IBM 6000 with AIX 3.1. Thanks very much in advance for any pointers. -- David B. Lewis Lewis, Trachtenberg & Associates (LTA) Note new address!: david@lta.com +1 617 225 0366 UNIX - some assembly required.
david@lta.com (David B. Lewis) (04/16/91)
(This is a repost with a wider distribution. I got several responses to a local query, all asking for copies of any information.) I have a small network of various workstations. I'd like to be able to handle mail forwarding by having all machines forward mail to our machine which is connected to the outside world (via a uucp link). This would let me maintain local and external aliases on a single machine and would also permit uucp-style bang connections from machines which aren't uucp-connected. Unfortunately, my ambition exceeds my ability to modify the sendmail.cf file properly to avoid needing to handle these special cases for each machine. What I would really like is a rule that says "forward this untouched to the mailhost and let it deal with it" but I don't see how to wrap the address up to do that without going through the process of parsing it and rewriting it. Is there an easy way to do this with a minimal configuration file? The main machine is running SunOS 4.1. Most of the clients are DECstations of various Ultrix vintage, but we also have an HP9000 with HPUX 6.5 and an IBM 6000 with AIX 3.1. Thanks very much in advance for any pointers. -- David B. Lewis Lewis, Trachtenberg & Associates (LTA) Note new address!: david@lta.com +1 617 225 0366 This .signature intentionally left blank.