Here's the problem. We are expanding our communications system. Our
UniData is expected to be sending email to our clients and the volume
will grow as we take greater advantage of this feature.
How do I off-load the emailing functions to a separate server? We
realize the DB will be creating the correspondence but we'd like to not
bog the system by sending email locally. It would be nice to move that
part of the process to a separate server and leave as much processing
power with the DB as possible. Not to mention its just outright bad to
expose the DB to the outside by allowing it to be a mail server on top
of regular business.
Ron:
Presuming you're on Unix and using sendmail as the underlying transport
agent, you can tweak the sendmail configuration to rewrite the headers so
it appears that your email is coming from elsewhere. This doesn't address
your first concern of removing the processing from the DB server, but when
the mail goes out, your DB server name does NOT have to be in the from or
reply-to fields (amoung others) so you can limit the exposure.
Likewise you can configure sendmail on your DB server to take any incoming
mail and send it somewhere else.
Jeff Butera, Ph.D.
Administrative Systems
Hampshire College
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
413-559-5556
"But Dad - I need most of your attention, not brother."
Catherine Butera
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