VaibhaV Sharma on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 rearranged electrons thusly:
> You mean that on the delhi.example.com server I set up mail aliases for the
> local users as [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] so that sendmail itself
> forwards all the other mails to the relay server of the ISP.
OK - that'd be pretty cool. You also have to have this setup duplicated
_across_ the mailservers - so that the other mailservers - and the central
mailserver also know that a user is at delhi / bombay / wherever.
> U mean a UUCP nodename for each local LAN which downloads mails from the
> main server on the Internet using UUCP and the UUCP mail copy is done by
> each node on connection to the net??
Not a bad idea :) Only, I don't know anything about uucp ... so this is a wild
ass guess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] => mainnode!delhi!user1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] => mainnode!bombay!user2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] => mainnode!calcutta!user3
Exim, sendmail etc all support uucp as a mailer. In sendmail you have to add
MAILER(uucp) in sendmail.mc and regenerate sendmail.cf (iirc)
In exim you just define uucp as a transport - config samples are given in a
tarball on ftp.exim.org
> I think I still am not clear with the concept of how UUCP works in case of
> mails.
no 'uucp for dummies' am afraid - but you could install something like
uucp@gift (or whatever) ... and they'd set the whole thing up for you. Never
tried it out though - so it might just be marketing hot-air for all I know.
> Anyway I'll try exim and the aliasing thing first.
anyway you need a single static ip at least for the central server - and for
incoming mails (that is, unless you want to set up a network where yr users are
able to mail only among themselves)
> I had some other queries too regarding mail filtering on the mail server for
> viruses etc. I am trying to download the trial version of the Norton
it sucks - and crashes. it also opens up a rather insecure pop proxy on your
pc which any hacker around looks for.
> PS: ain't this mail server configuration stuff interesting when it starts
> working :-)
Hopefully ...
-suresh
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