On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Denis Havlik wrote:
> :>This describes setting your sendmail daemon to relay all mail thru the
> :>specified host (your isp), not the same thing..
> :>
> :>> Hope this helps (a bit)
> :>> Herman
> :>>
> :>
> :>If your going to use your isp's mailserver why run one on the local
> :>machine.. But yes if you set a smtp in your mail client it will bypass the
> :>local server and if it doesn't get there you don't have to worry about
> :>what went wrong you just call the isp and tell them "fix your s**t, it's
> :>broke). If you set relay-host you have to maintain sendmail..
There're many reasons both for and against..
> I suppose there is one good reason to do so - if there is no sendmail on
> the system, how do you get the outgoing mail processed in case you do not
> have a permanent connection? With sendmail, I just run the "sendmail -q"
> from "/etc/ppp/ip-up.local", and all the e-mails get forwarded to a "smart
> host". How would you do this withouth sendmail?
With your email client?
> Another question is - even if you have a permanent connection, what would
> one do in case the e-mail cannot be forwarded to a mail-hub imediately
> and you do not have sendmail configured? At work i have several "client"
> machines which have "sendmail -q" started from cron every hour...
without sendmail it's the client responsibility to manage it's own queue
that needs sent to the server (pop-3/imap/?)
> Getting rid of the sendmail altogether may be a noble target, but how do I
> handle the mail waiting in the mailq then?
it's totally "do-able".
You wouldn't have a system wide queue then.. actualy you could, come up
with your own format and processing system, or use the same format and
custom proccessor. (man ya gotta love linux)
> Below is a part of my sendmail configuration at home:
>
> # Alias for this host
> Cw localhost fudo
> Fw/etc/mail/sendmail.cw
> # Virtual email domain
> # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading)
> DMhavlik.org
> # Smart host
> DSunet.univie.ac.at
> # Use this mailer to reach the Smart host
> DNsmtp
> # Central host for local mail
> DHlocalhost
> # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even if we have a relay
> CLroot denis fuada
> # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host, even if we
> masquerade
> CEroot
>
> cu
> Denis
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