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Re: E Mail & PPP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randall Shutt)
Sun Sep 8 10:47:47 1996
From: "Randall Shutt" <rshutt@extacy.ravenet.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 09:59:43 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Joseph Possert" <joseph@voltec.com>
"E Mail & PPP" (Sep 5, 7:55pm)
To: joseph@voltec.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> I have a strange networking problem relating to Sendmail, SMTP &
> PPP. Here's a brief discription:
>
> All of our E Mail to & from the internet is sent through our mail hub
> (a Linux Box which connects to our mail provider using UUCP). This
> is good.
>
> However, here's the rub. When I connect to our ISP using ppp, all of
> our Internet E Mail gets routed to the ISP rather than the UUCP host.
> E Mail for the whole company should be entirely routed through the
> UUCP host. I don't know if this is how its intented to work &
> generally I'd say its a pleasant boon, however, I need to have mail
> routed to the UUCP host.
>
> I can't remove the TCP/IP section of sendmail because we use SMTP on
> many computers which all use the single Linux Box as the mail hub.
How about restricting the rulesets further which choose the final mailer?
Be a little more specific about which mails gets sent through which mailer.
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Randall Shutt
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