pda@stiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson) (12/09/89)
I have a stock Sys V machine, with sockets extensions (Convergent S640,
OS rev 5.2.25). I installed smail and deliver with no problems and we
have been using it successfully for a year. We are ethernetted internally
and are using rlogin, ftp regularly. But we have not had the smtp mail
transport. I recently ported the Berkeley sendmail to this machine and
have sucessfully sent/received mail to/from Suns, Vaxen (running
Wollongong), and Interactive Unix boxes.
Here's the question: What is the configuration I should set up using
svbinmail(/bin/mail), /bin/lmail, /usr/bin/deliver, /bin/{smail,rmail},
and /usr/lib/sendmail ?
1) svbinmail (/bin/mail) calls rmail who calls sendmail who calls deliver.
2) svbinmail calls sendmail who calls smail (for offsite address) and who
calls deliver (for local addresses). rmail is a link to sendmail.
3) any number of other configurations...
I can eventually arrive at a solution, but i KNOW that someone has a
recommendation for doing this correctly. And I don't want to create a
nightmare for my sysadmin (who is already losing his hair!).
Help?
Thanks,
paul
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gatech!stiatl!pda (h) (404) 662-0799mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) (12/14/89)
In article <8099@stiatl.UUCP> pda@stiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson) writes: >Here's the question: What is the configuration I should set up using >svbinmail(/bin/mail), /bin/lmail, /usr/bin/deliver, /bin/{smail,rmail}, >and /usr/lib/sendmail ? We direct all mail to sendmail, which decides whether the destination is on the local network or has a fully qualified domain name, in which case it hands it off to SMTP. Otherwise, it assumes that the address is uucp and hands it off to smail, which uses the pathalias database for routing. This works quite well. -- Mark Benard Department of Computer Science INTERNET & BITNET: mb@cs.tulane.edu Tulane University USENET: rex!mb New Orleans, LA 70118