[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I > have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and > it's configuration. > > Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are > peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's and > con's are. One I can think of; Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config > every login, versus having visible_name set to your ISP's domain, to > have a valid hostname. (All of these questions relate to dial-up > configurations)
Well, I can give you some advantages/disadvantages of what I do. The advantage is that Sender: addresses are always correct in some sense, and the envelope From: address seems to be written correctly as well. The disadvantage is that re-running smailconfig breaks this setup (or rather, anything you get by running smailconfig is wiped out at the next ip-up). It's probably the wrong thing to do for someone whose box only ever has one user who's sending mail. > Another question is, what is better: using a smarthost for all mail, or > for mail that fails? opinions here.... Well... any mail composed while offline is just going to end up going through the smarthost anyway, so why not use a smarthost all the time? The only time I'd consider not using a smarthost for all mail (for a dialup ppp box) would be when one's smarthost was notoriously slow. > What would people suggest in my situation, where my ISP's SMTP server > does not mind invalid hostnames? should I just use it as a smarthost, > and forget about visible_name? I have not understood how to set up a > smarthost, how is this done? Yep. Setting this situation up is easy - in smailconfig choose the "internet site" option, give your ISP's name as your visible name, and enter their smtp server as your smarthost. Or, if you insist on editing your /etc/smail/routers file directly, replace all routes with this one: smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtp; path=your.isps.smtp.server -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .