Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (11/28/90)
AMDS replaces sendmail only on workstations that use AFS. AMDS is not
the inter-machine transport agent that sendmail is. AMDS is, rather, a
local mail delivery system, with a potentially large definition of
``local'': all users of an AFS cell, or even all users of all the
connected, cooperating AFS cells. AMDS is traditionally run alongside
long-haul, SMTP-based transport agents such as sendmail; AMDS does the
local delivery, and sendmail does the rest.
I'm afraid that you may have a misunderstanding of what AMDS would buy
you if you're not using AFS. I'm sure that you can get it to work on a
single machine, but I'm not sure that it offers anything that would make
it worth the bother of maintaining it. Now, it has features like
distribution lists, local WP lookups, and so forth, but it's a pretty
big system to install. I'm sorry if your work has resulted from a
misunderstanding.
/etc/queuemail is by no means a sendmail replacement. Generally, AMDS
drops off long-haul mail by piping into the OldSendmailProgram
(defaulted to /etc/oldsendmail), and BSD sendmail drops off local mail
to AMDS by piping into /etc/queuemail. On a single machine, you'd need
to start your sendmail daemon and also start the AMDS daemons (by
invoking what's created from the
{andrew}/overhead/pobbconf/rc.local.pobb file).
Craigkw20swk0@TWNITRI1.BITNET (Wai-kong, Sung) (11/28/90)
I am trying to install AMDS to replace sendmail in a SUN 4/65.
I 've compiled the directory ams/delivery, the source of AMDS.
But how should I use the AMDS replace the sendmail? i.e., how should
I modify the /etc/rc.local? Should I use queuemail to replace
/usr/lib/sendmail? any modification in the file /etc/sendmail.cf?
Did anyone have similar experience and can help me?
Wai-kong, Sung
kw20swk0@twnitri1.bitnet